We are by no means perfect. We have warts and all.

May Allah send you warts and give you bedbugs for company!

Many people visited my grandmother, people with severe acne on their faces or warts on their hands.

Yet America s legacy of global leadership over the past six decades, warts and all, is unprecedented in its relative benevolence and positive impact.

I know of no better, more fascinating warts and all portrait of any political leader than Li s book, The Private Life of Chairman Mao .

Each time, my grandmother would utter some words in Arabic, take a red apple and stab it with as many rose thorns as the number of warts she wanted to remove.

Each time, my grandmother would utter some words in Arabic, take a red apple and stab it with as many rose thorns as the number of warts she wanted to remove.

But if China s leaders will neither do more to support the current international system, nor articulate an alternative, and instead continue to hark back to nineteenth century models of inviolable sovereignty, they will destroy a global order that, warts and all, has served the world exceedingly well.