Secretary of State: America

America: That description of America by the Clinton-era secretary of state was followed, in the 2000s, by an epic foreign-policy blunder in Iraq; riotous greed culminating in a Wall Street meltdown and resulting Great Recession; and tragic incompetence by which New York and Washington were naked to their 9/11 enemies, and Hurricane Katrina destroyed a large portion of a great city, New Orleans, according to The Star. And thats the context in which the superb American author Cullen Murphy, in his 2007 bestseller Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, wrote ominously that Whenever I see the space shuttle...I think back to the Rome of Hadrians day, and the gargantuan statue of the Sun-God, as tall as the shuttle, being dragged into place by 24 elephants and The timing could have been better for Madeleine Albrights assertion that We are the indispensable nation. We stand taller. We see further into the future. Add in Americas more recent flirtation with defaulting on its unprecedented, staggering debt , and the U.S. display of varied ineptitude for all the world to see was bound to raise doubts about the shelf life of Pax Americana. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.