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Many within the United States and others abroad continue to question the United States\u2019 role in the world. Understandably, Americans have grown wary of the country\u2019s role in the world, some asking whether the U.S. still has the power and influence to lead the international community, while others question why the United States must still take on this seemingly singular responsibility. On the eve of a major speech by President Obama addressing these questions, Senior Fellow\xa0Robert Kagan\xa0released a new essay entitled, "Superpowers Don't Get to Retire: What Our Tired Country Still Owes the World," which was published in the latest edition of\xa0The New Republic. Kagan argued that the United States has no choice but to be \u201cexceptional.\u201d On May 27, the\xa0Foreign Policy program\xa0at Brookings and\xa0The New Republic\xa0hosted an event to mark the release of the Kagan essay and in advance of President Obama\u2019s address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Kagan, a senior fellow in the\xa0Project on International Order and Strategy\xa0at Brookings, was joined by\xa0The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier and\xa0The Washington Post's Fred Hiatt. After the program, the panelists took audience questions.

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