We may find ourselves with a president untested and unprepared for the international challenges facing him. The world needs American power to maintain its fragile stability.
William Shawcross, the distinguished British journalist and campaigner for refugee rights, is the author of Allies, Why the West Had to Remove Saddam (Public Affairs, New York). A biographer of Rupert Murdoch, he is currently writing the life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.