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Thanks to the Republicans' gains in the mid-term elections, the Democrats will find it harder to push legislation through Congress in 2011 (see article ). That means that if Barack Obama wants to make a mark in the coming year, he will have to do so in the wider world.
United States: The limits of power
50 years from now historians will probably be writing about the fall of the American empire. But history is writing itself furiously in the present, accelerated by the revolution of global freedom of information. What would have taken years to gather is accessible to anyone with a few strokes on a computer keyboard. So never mind the historians of the future, and lets see how reality is shaping up today. The crumbling period of the United States empire started on September 11th. Since then, a chain of events so dire occurred that it would seem the empire defeated itself by a series of catastrophic mistakes.
The American Empire Is Collapsing, And Americans Will Be The Last to Know | World
talk to those he negotiated with . The Taliban are playing Richard Holbrooke’s death as an omen. After his “life of toil and fatigue,” said a communiqué from the guerrillas, the American president’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan succumbed to heart problems “when his previous fame and credibility came under question after the unremitting failures of the mission.”
Richard Holbrooke: Diplomat in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia and Europe was Our Man on the Ground