January , 2009
Obama is not Bush but Barack is American
"United States today spends approximately as much as the rest of the world combined on its military establishment, yet it is worth pondering why it is that after nearly four years of effort, thousands of American lives lost, and perhaps a half trillion dollars of outlays, the United States has not succeeded in pacifying a small country of some 24 million people, much less in leading it to anything that looks remotely like a successful democracy." These words were written by Francis Fukuyama in 2006. One of the most prominent thinkers of modern times and proponent of End of History, Fukuyama sums up the real agony of US and its tragedy as a nation and also all the problems its facing now. It is not a co-incidence that President Obama in his inaugural speech has said: "We are in the midst of crisis is now well understood." Francis....




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