Muy interesante columna de Charles Krauthammer sobre la eterna discusión de si EEUU viene barranca abajo o no. No se la pierdan si tienen unos minutos:
The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no. Both answers are wrong, because the assumption that somehow there exists some predetermined inevitable trajectory, the result of uncontrollable external forces, is wrong. Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. Two decades into the unipolar world that came about with the fall of the Soviet Union, America is in the position of deciding whether to abdicate or retain its dominance. Decline -- or continued ascendancy -- is in our hands.
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Facing the choice of whether to maintain our dominance or to gradually, deliberately, willingly and indeed relievedly give it up, we are currently on a course toward the latter. The current liberal ascendancy in the United States -- controlling the executive and both houses of Congress, dominating the media and elite culture -- has set us on a course for decline. And this is true for both foreign and domestic policies. Indeed, they work synergistically to ensure that outcome.
Aca tambien. Lo que pasa es que caerse desde la posición en que está Estados Unidos es fácil. Pero cavar para caer más bajo una vez que ya llegaste al fondo del agujero como estamos haciendo en Argentina es heroico.
ReplyDeleteYo creo que siempre pasa lo mismo: se anuncia la pronta caída del "imperio yanqui" y al final...no pasa nada. Me acuerdo que Luis había citado hace un tiempo el caso de Japón: hace cosa de 20 años se decía que los nipones iban a superar a Estados Unidos...y no pasó nada. Mismo caso, creo, con la ex Unión Soviética.
ReplyDeletePara mí debe haber mucha envidia detrás de todo.
Andrés