Three major shocks have roiled the world in the past decade or so: the 9/11 attack, the global  financial crisis, and Arab Spring, said Dr. Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State, speaking at Hart Energy’s DUG Conference & Exhibition in Fort Worth. As these events have unfurled, they have shaken Americans’ faith in their country and hurt the standing of the United States in the world community. 

“On 9/11, a group of stateless terrorists from the failed state of Afghanistan came across, and probably at a cost of about ...