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It is easy to understand why so many among us who comprise the United States feel like they have a birthright to at least direct, if not actually control, the rest of the world. As the sun started setting on the British Empire late in the first half of the last century, America assumed that throne through its own version of hook, crook and ingenuity.
But America's days as the undisputed worldwide leader have been in a countdown for some time now. To be sure, a group in our nation's capital that is as important as its name suggests -- the National Intelligence Council -- predicted five years ago that America's dominance over the rest of the world would end by 2020. That would be two years before Qatar hosts the Middle East's first World Cup.
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