Good night, America: Die Amerikaner träumten einen Traum, der sie zur Nation machte, den Traum von Aufstieg und Reichtum für alle. Nun müssen die USA erkennen, wie fragil ihr System ist und wie bitter die Realität – die Supermacht findet keinen Weg aus der Krise und gefährdet die Weltwirtschaft.
Good night, America. The Americans dreamed a dream that made them into a nation, the dream of opportunity and wealth for everyone. The USA must now confront the fragility of its system, and a bitter reality: The Superpower has no way out of its crisis, and it is endangering the world economy.
Cover story in brief
DER SPIEGEL, 10/30/2010
Having read close to two pages from bob’s link, it looks like the same story of doom that gets re-invented every dozen years.
I read this story in the mid-sixties, after Nixon, toward the end of the Jimmy Carter admin . . .
The tone of the international edition fo the article seems less, what I don’t even know what the word is, and provides as good (altho blander) a summary of things as I’ve seen.
In fact the tone of the IE is so bland as to be bizzarre juxtposed with the German cover.
What’s the point of feeling superior if you keep it to yourself? Doesn’t a certain confidence come with it, a swagger. Swaggering at home in front of the mirror seems, well, not a pretty picture.