Beyond Bush...By Fareed Zakaria...Newsweek Magazine

Fareed tells it like it is.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Beyond Bush What the world needs is an open, confident America. In 19 months he will be a private citizen, giving speeches to insurance executives. America, however, will have to move on and restore its place in the world. To do this we must first tackle the consequences of our foreign policy of fear. Having spooked ourselves into believing that we have no option but to act fast, alone, unilaterally and pre-emptively, we have managed in six years to destroy decades of international good will, alienate allies, embolden enemies and yet solve few of the major international problems we face. In a global survey released last week, most countries polled believed that China would act more responsibly in the world than the United States. How does a Leninist dictatorship come across more sympathetically than the oldest constitutional democracy in the world? The problem today is not that America is too strong but that it is seen as too arrogant, uncaring and insensitive.