U.S. policy over the last four years has been driven by the false belief that, as the lone superpower, the United States is powerful enough to bend the world to its will, and John Bolton embodies this dangerous hegemonic ideology. It is a costly myth that has made the superpower burden heavier, not just in having to handle the insurgency in Iraq on its own but also in seeking to garner world coalitions to counter threats from terrorism and proliferators. And the fact that, in recent years, anti-Americanism has spiked to unprecedented levels around the globe has made achieving these goals infinitely harder.