Dominique Moïsi on what is ailing America:
In a hasty and excessively provocative manner, some in the American media are starting to speak of Obama as "a second Jimmy Carter" and predict that he will serve only one term. What is more serious is the impression that the American political system, with its inability to transcend party divisions and forge national consensus, is increasingly sclerotic.
America's political institutions have aged like the country's infrastructure. They were devised more than two centuries ago for a mostly agrarian world. Today, they need to be amended and rejuvenated. But that may not be possible, given the sacrosanctity with which many Americans regard the US constitution.
Dominique Moïsi. knows as much about America as Mark Steyn knows about France or Christopher Caldwell about Europe. In plainer terms, I cannot take his diagnostic seriously on this subject.
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