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The Party's Over, Folks! Remember that lovely "holiday from history" after the Cold War? You know, that magical time when America's biggest foreign policy concern was deciding which countries to invite to our democracy-spreading parties? Well, guess what? The vacation's over, the hotel bill is due, and reality is banging on our door like an angry neighbor complaining about our decades-long karaoke session of "We Are The World." The Great Geopolitical Hangover: America's Holiday from History is Over (And Boy, Does Our Head Hurt) Welcome to the Global Drama Club The world has entered what experts call a "period of protracted systemic instability," which is fancy-speak for "everything's gone bonkers." It's like someone took the global Jenga tower we've been carefully building since 1991 and decided to play it in a hurricane. On a boat. During an earthquake. The New Reality Show: "Keeping Up With The Global Powers...