Though President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been visiting the United Nations in recent days--with meetings continuing this week for Rice--for their usual, intensive annual round of diplomacy, the behind-the-scenes buzz at the world body is focused on the relative decline of U.S. power in world affairs. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The article provides a short interesting window into talk from diplomats at the UN. No sources quoted.
Too little attention is given in US media to the UN, and to what UN delegates are discussing. The Bush administration's insane wars and threats of war, combined with the financial crisis, inevitably raise issues in the delegates' minds about American decline.
I think they have their facts straight and everything in order, but I think it focuses too much on one area and not how to fix another.
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