Die von den USA selbst geschaffene Weltordnung wurde damals im amerikanischen Bewusstsein entwertet, dadurch geschwächt und schließlich gar bewusst angegriffen.
America’s foreign policy elite increasingly came to perceive the US as a Gulliver tied down and oppressed by political midgets, with their laws of nations, treaties, and multilateral institutions. The existing world order – created by the US itself – was first devalued in American eyes, then weakened, and finally consciously attacked.