Charlie Rose hosts Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Henry Kissinger for comments on the current situation.
The usual viewings with alarm follow, but I want to leave you with one observation: The entire world, due to the information explosion, radio, TV, the Internet, has become Balkanized as leaders exploit tribal, cultural, and nationalist identities to foment discord from which can be reaped profit and status, but which work against a global democracy.
Enter the USA as global policeman, sort of a Super-Tito (you'll recall Tito* kept Yugoslavia in one piece through rather brutal tactics, much as we are doing in Iraq and other places)
*Tito's rule had many characteristics of a dictatorship, as was common in post-WW2 communist states. The Communist Party of Yugoslavia won the first post-war elections with sometimes disputed simplified ballots, but the massive popular support Tito enjoyed was self-evident at the time.
The Party immediately used its power to seek out the remaining Nazi-sympathizers and radical nationalists and put them to trial; this was sometimes accomplished using unorthodox methods more characteristic of the Stalinist National Republics in the Eastern Bloc.
Tito's administration did, however, unite a country that had been severely affected by the war, and successfully suppressed the nationalist sentiments of the peoples of Yugoslavia in favor of the common Yugoslav goal.
How are we essentially different?
We necessarily have a goal of stability before democracy, to make a peaceful world.
QED?