As it turns 250, the US questions its role in the world: ‘Great Satan’ or ‘indispensable nation’?
Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, called it “the indispensable nation.” Its rivals have preferred labels such as “the Great Satan,” the epithet bestowed on it by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Admired or reviled, champion of …