Mark A. Shryock THE BREAKING POINT OF AMERICAN POWER by Mark A. Shryock Written August 18, 2026 Years ago, at a media seminar in Paris, I had the chance to spend time with Flora Lewis, the foreign correspondent, and one thing she said has never left me. There is always a story behind the story. What you are handed at the press briefing is almost never the thing that actually happened. The thing…