This year's theme at the World Economic Forum annual meeting -- "the shifting power equation"-- confirms the view of the global elite gathering in Davos, Switzerland that power is draining away from the United States to multiple centers as countries from Brazil to China moved beyond "emerging" markets to establish themselves as major players on the world scene.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/davos-foru...ms-powe_b_39275.html
This is something we should know about, and it is only indirectly about US Foreign Policy. The growing clout in world markets is making a difference, Personally, I think the conservative response to the change is calle the War In Iraq, and the Threats to the rest of the world.
This particular article, taken in that light, makes the USA a paper tiger.
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