Bushes' `New World Order' Is Yielding to `Post-American' Era

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Democratic presidential candidate Obama wants the U.S. to use economic leadership to navigate an increasingly borderless world, as it did in the last decade, while Republican McCain sees military might as the path to continued prosperity, as happened under the cloud of the Cold War's nuclear standoff.

Whichever man wins, he will inherit what Johns Hopkins University political scientist Francis Fukuyama calls a ``post- American world,'' replacing the U.S.-dominated ``new world order'' that President George H.W. Bush proclaimed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Future historians may date the end of U.S. supremacy to Aug. 8, when President George W. Bush sat in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium as two seminal events unfolded.

The first was the lighting of the Olympic torch, a testament to China's ascendancy. The second -- engineered a continent away by Vladimir Putin even as he sat near Bush that night -- was Russia's invasion of Georgia to repel an attack on a pro-Moscow breakaway region, an act of revenge against the decade of humiliation Russians endured following the Soviet breakup.

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[ingac70]

1. Bush has created a fucking mess..

from which this nation will never recover.