Gates spent more time responding to the conference's Saturday surprise, Russian President Vladimir Putin blasting the U.S.'s post-Cold War foreign policy as unipolar and dangerous.
Backing out of the reserve currency issue and up to the arguably more profound level of culture and belief, China is not interested in a unipolar world.
The results seem even stronger in the hands of a good therapist: we gave three groups of unipolar depressed patients either medication, treatment as usual, or positive psychotherapy.
For all of the neo-con's unipolar bluster, America will have to seek multilateral solutions to many of the political and economic challenges facing it worldwide to maintain peace abroad and prosperity at home.