Globalist Bookshelf > Global Society The Waning of the American Dream

Globalist Bookshelf > Global Society The Waning of the American Dream   By Zbigniew Brzezinski | Tuesday, February 28, 2012   The United States still aspires to set an example for other nations. But a host of economic and political problems are conspiring to jeopardize America's standing in the world, writes foreign policy expert Zbigniew Brzezinski in "Strategic Vision" — none more critical than its citizens' ignorance of current events, geography and history. The United States is beset by several critical and increasingly threatening liabilities. Its gridlocked political system, dominated by vitriolic partisan discourse, has sharply reduced America's ability to deal meaningfully with its mounting and eventually unsustainable national debt, to repair its decaying infrastructure, and to address problems in its economic system.