The Big Picture (putting it all together)

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The death of the American Century: The dream is dying.

It was this: a belief that the world has a special love for Americans, for our earnest innocence and gawky immediacy, for our willingness to share the obvious truth and light of democracy with people still struggling in the darkness of history, for our random energy, syncopated music and lopsided, baseball-playing grins.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041903936.html