USA-Global Power in Decline

The October 22, 2012 presidential debate on foreign policy-which happened 50 years after John F. Kennedy’s Address to the Nation on the Cuba Missile Crisis-did not bring anything substantially new, except this: The two candidates revealed a global power on the decline and a crisis for a great nation, with foreign policy having to take a back seat for the USA in the future. In light of the highly praised but totally misunderstood developments of the Arab Spring, this vacuum will be filled. And it is Germany as the leader of the EU, which will fill it. But that is not good news.