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I was surfing through social media a couple of days ago, and I saw a very short video that someone posted of the airport in Singapore.

He has a full video and he says, I'm just in awe of Singapore's airport. You see this magnificent airport with a giant waterfall in the center of it.

It reminded me of airports I've seen over the years, recent years, like the airport in Seoul, South Korea, another spectacular airport, which by the way has beautiful facilities, top notch restaurants. You can have salons all in the airport itself.

It occurred to me, wow, Americans probably don't know this, but foreign airports today are much better than American airports. You look at places like JFK, which looks like some rundown second or almost third world airport.

The Bombay Airport used to be a third world airport. You'd actually have to walk on dirt to get to the gate. It's now a spectacular polished floor. It's a beautiful airport.

I'm raising a bigger question, which is America in terminal decline.

I remember that when Reagan gave speeches, he frequently would say in its typical optimistic fashion, our best days are still ahead. Even when Reagan wrote his very touching letter about having Alzheimer's, it ends with I'm convinced that America's best days are ahead.

I think for Reagan, this was not a prediction so much as it was kind of a hope that America would hold on to the things that made America special and made America great.

Remember, civilizations don't last forever. Here's Edward Gibbon, the historian. It was at Rome on 15 October 1764, as I sat musing among the ruins of the capital, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

This is when Gibbon gets the idea for writing his great work, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and the Roman Empire having fallen has never returned.

When we think back, for example, to countries that have dominated the world, by the way, in the 15th and early 16th century, the dominant power was the Portuguese.

In the 16th and 17th century, it was the Spanish. In the 17th and early 18th century, it was the French. In the 18th and early 19th century, it was England.

And then from the 19th century, the late 19th century, through the 20th century, it's been America.

But here we are in the 21st century, and it seems to be that America is losing something permanently.

And we have to remember that countries that lose that top position historically, to my knowledge, never get it back.

So this is a permanent loss. And I notice it in all kinds of ways. I notice it, for example, look at foreigners used to love to come to America.

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