US Magic is Over

The past 7 years of US politics have done a lot of damage to the country’s reputation abroad. (Refer also to my previous post on this topic.) But it was still a shock to see the headline in the International Herald Tribune this week “U.S. ‘magic is over’….French diplomat talks of challenges”.
Roger Cohen of the IHT interviewed Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France, who spoke last week at the Forum for New Diplomacy. The presidential successor to Bush will not have an easy time restoring the battered image of the US overseas. There are no easy ways out of …read more