Rohan Jayasekera

America: Is This the End of an Era?

I'm Canadian, and in this article I see the usual ignorance of Americans when it comes to anything outside their own borders. "They have nothing, they build nothing, they sell nothing without OUR demand," he says. Um, sorry, but to all those countries the U.S. is just an export market. Sometimes a big one, but always a lot smaller than the domestic market. Sorry, Mr. Tiwari, but I actually *can* imagine a world without the United States in it -- and so can most non-Americans. Only Americans are so arrogant as to insist on their indispensability, just as the British did back when they had an empire.

Such a world would be a much lesser place, however. I encourage all Americans to take a less belligerent view of the rest of the world than Mr. Tiwari does, and to acknowledge based on recent events that the USA can no longer pretend to have all the answers. The better alternative is to join the rest of humanity as equals.