Column 124

Post-Caucasian world hardly post-American world

As our financial crisis unfolds, Americans suffer a serious bout of existential ennui. Unsure of whom we are or our global role anymore, our self-doubt scares the world in near-equal measure. Predictably, both skeptics at home and challengers abroad tell us that we must get used to this post-American world. My advice is to resist these sirens' song.

From the perspective of grand strategy, such pessimism is unwarranted: just as our international liberal trade order -- known now as globalization -- encompasses the near-totality of the planet, vastly outreaching all previous attempts to establish a global order and doing so in a manner that both enriches and empowers individuals, too many Americans feel alienated from this world so clearly of our creation.

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Comments

[dan Hare]

Secure Global Supply Chains is the key to the Great Global Buildout which results in all peoples being increasingly elevated from poverty and away from disease. The new rule set :'just stay on the road'Sounds pretty simple to me.Cheers!

[Dan]

Great article. I agree. No need to fear non-caucasions. Fear should be along value lines. I fear countries like Iran, North Korea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, etc., which seem to value human subjugation over economic growth.