Keeping America Safe : What Is Our Greatest Threat? How Should We Respond?

This issue guide offers a framework for deliberating over the priorities that should inform our nation's role on the world's stage. It presents three different options for moving forward—each based on a different way of looking at our greatest threats and each involving a different set of prescriptions for what should be done. Most important, each option has significant downsides and drawbacks. Each of these will need to be considered if we are to decide how best to use our economic, military, and diplomatic resources. Option 1: Make America's Needs Our Top Priority Option 2: Assert US Power Option 3: Work with Others to Solve Global Problems

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