At the U.N., leaders hope for a return of American greatness.
The world misses the old America, the one before the crash—the crashes—of the past dozen years.
That is the takeaway from conversations the past week in New York,
where world leaders gathered for the annual U.N. General Assembly
session. Our friends, and we have many, speak almost poignantly of the
dynamism, excellence, exuberance and leadership of the nation they had,
for so many years, judged themselves against, been inspired by,
attempted to emulate, resented.
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| Chad Crowe |
As for those who are not America's friends, some seem still confused,
even concussed, by the new power shift. What is their exact place in
it? Will it last? Will America come roaring back? Can she? Does she have
the political will, the human capital, the old capability?
It is a world in a new kind of flux, one that doesn't know what to make of America anymore. In part because of our president.
"We want American leadership," said a member of a diplomatic
delegation of a major U.S. ally. He said it softly, as if confiding he
missed an old friend.
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