How could there be anything else but 'a loss of confidence in the systems'?

If there is indeed a 'security deficit' in today's world, it doesn't scare people as much as it used to. In fact, this typical CFR article seems to confirm that fact and warns us not to take things too lightly, or else. In every paragraph, one expects the 'New World Order' to pop up as the ultimate panacea.

In his comment, Michael Heller couldn't agree more with Michael Spence if he tried. We all recognize the best of intentions in his grandfather's idealism. Those were the days in which the whole world saw the USA as a beacon of benevolence, justice and democracy. But those days are over. Today's masses are better informed than ever before. America's catastrophic shortsightedness and outright malevolence has been demonstrated so often, and so clearly in the Middle East, 9/11 and Afghanistan, to name just a few examples, that it is hard to understand why anyone would still want to call upon its boldness and pride. The American Dream has ended, we're all sitting up sweating and panting. And you wonder why the world won't let you 'enforce the global rule of law'? Even the most meek and modest, even those indifferent today and blissfully unaware of the CFR, would eventually rather opt for the hapless chaos of self-governance. The USA cannot and will not impose its version of global leadership on all of us, because your institutions, 'so immensely successful on a large territorial scale', have degraded to a sad remnant of democracy, steered by vested interests, that mysterious complex Ike and John F. warned us about more than half a century ago, and the spending power of corporations larger than most nations. The world is tired of it, disillusioned and distrustful. How can that mortal fatigue be so hard to recognize, unless one has never left American shores and prefers to stay in Disneyland? I am quite sure that Michael Heller's grandfather did not envisage a unilateral American move towards world leadership, as in those days his mind could not possibly have been fogged to this degree with delusions of superiority.