EARTH TO AMERICA: THE WORLD WON'T GO AWAY

摘要

Until about two weeks ago when instabilities in the Middle East exploded on America's television screens, voters expressed little interest in foreign policy issues. Time and again, polls indicated that they were focused on domestic issues, with education, health, and social security topping their lists. Like 1992 and 1996, the first campaign of the new century revolved around the economy. But disturbances in the Middle East are a jarring reminder that the fate of the American economy is inexorably tied to developments in the global economy. There were other less visible but equally compelling reminders of this reality earlier at meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Prague.