Barack Obama leads all right to socialism

Barack Obama leads all right to socialism. We don't want a Europeanization of America. "The formula has been used week last by the head of the Republican minority in the Senate, Senator Mitch McConnell, to justify his opposition to the economic program of the new President.

The report of the world America has always been complex, a mix of idealism, distrust and indifference. Between intervene in the world for the better, save the world to save America or reforming America to preserve its place in the world, America always did what path to choose.

In their report to the world, the differences appear to be significant between Bush's America and Obama. In arrogant defiance of 2001 has substituted the appeal for multilateralism of 2009.

But what, fundamentally, has not changed, it is the attitude of the Americans to the world. Certainly, on television news, is it briefly reference to the outside world; This week, North Korea and its missiles, the Iran and its diplomacy, Israel and its elections, and of course always the Afghanistan and the Iraq. But it is clear that this passionate America, more than ever, it is itself.

There is a striking contrast between the fascination that the American, especially that of Obama, has over the world and remote view that America is on the same world. In the eyes of the vast majority of Americans, the real war is not in Afghanistan it is played, after the Iraq that is clearly passed to the second plan, it is "at home". The challenge, they are not the Taliban, is unemployment. Send additional troops to Afghanistan if possible of foreign quotas is good, but it cannot distract America of its primary responsibilities are to put order in it.

America is not the choice. What would be its international legitimacy if the economy continued to sink without end Restoring confidence to the Americans and revive the economic machine properly are the first priorities of US foreign policy.

And, yet, there is no less in America a deep contradiction between the speech of the elites that reiterate that their country is intended to guide the world and that of the people who, in their vast majority, consider the world best with indifference and at worst as a distraction, if not as a threat.

At the beginning of the year 2009, the world should expect not too much of America, and this for a double reason. The first is precisely the gaze growing more than ever that America is suffering. The second is in the short term at least worse still . Between "the audacity of hope" preached with conviction by Barack Obama and the worsening of economic fear, hope is prevail. If America is still the "tone" of the world, if the events that might occur, if the feelings are expressed are always a forerunner of what Europe is going to know in a few months, if not weeks, then we are, we Europeans, prepare for difficult days. Before you begin to rebound, America first will continue to suffer still more.

The promised land of the economic recovery is probably on the horizon, but the storm is stronger that it could not fear.

America is certainly ahead of us, but it is in terms of the depth of the crisis.

And there are now as almost too visible contradiction between the "message" of Barack Obama and the profile of its "messengers". The new Secretary of State for the Treasury, Timothy f. Geithner, appears well "tender" to cope with the enormous responsibilities which are his own.

Medium term, i.e. at least for two years, it is reasonable to expect does not too much America. The problem is that the Middle East to Asia, passing through the Russia, "the time will not suspend its flight" until America has resumed its breath.