Posted by
colorado springs citizen on Monday, May 26, 2008 10:55:57 AM
One
of America’s greatest paradoxes is the divergence between a commonly
shared opinion, which does not like to ask itself too many questions,
and an intelligentsia that is more and better at self-reflection than
anywhere else. While the savage marketing of the election campaigns and
the jousting for power between Democrats and Republicans in their quest
for the White House continue, an abstract feeling prevails all around
that American leading dominance in the world cannot be and some very
serious deliberation is needed upon the fate of its superpower status
in an environment of progressive globalization. Whichever will be the
American people’s final decision, Barack Obama or John McCain, each of
these candidates will face the end of the Pax Americana era, an
economic depression, and most significantly, the obvious emergence of
the “rest of the world”. This does not necessarily spell out a
catastrophe for the country of Jefferson and Washington. Leave it to a
brilliant intellectual like Fareed Zakaria, a graduate of Yale and
Harvard of an Indian-Muslim background, to deem this new situation as
an opportunity to be seized.