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Article: Hungry for America: after seven long years, the world is ready--and waiting--for the return of the United States.(MISSING LINKS)
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- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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The world wants America back. For the next several years, world politics will be reshaped by a strong yearning for American leadership. This trend will be as unexpected as it is inevitable: unexpected given the powerful anti-American sentiments sweeping the world, and inevitable given the vacuums that only the United States can fill and that others will increasingly demand that it fills.
This renewed international appetite for U.S. leadership will not merely result from the election of a new president in 2008, though having a new occupant in the White House will certainly help. But other, more compelling factors are fueling the world's hunger for America. Almost ...