The Washington Note Archives: “How the U.S. Became the World’s Dispensable Nation

by Michael Lind

In a second inaugural address tinged with evangelical zeal, George W. Bush declared: ‘Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world.’ The peoples of the world, however, do not seem to be listening. A new world order is indeed emerging – but its architecture is being drafted in Asia and Europe, at meetings to which Americans have not been invited.”

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