ترجمة لمقال بصحيفة الجارديان " أمريكا تلفظ أنفاسها الأخيرة"

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/america-empire]Tristram Hunt[/url] كتب:

To wander through modern Los Angeles is to get a keen idea of Rome in
400AD, Venice at the end of its medieval glory or post-war London. LA
is a city redolent of empire and it is visibly in collapse. It is not
just the choking smog, violent ghettos or armies of homeless, but a
more fin de siècle sense that its time has passed. One can imagine, in
100 years, the Pacific waves lapping at the stones of Santa Monica, the
sand blowing through the skyscrapers and the great film studios serving
as a 20th-century Colosseum.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/america-empire]Tristram Hunt[/url] كتب:


Last week's report from the National Intelligence Council only served
to confirm the fear that the age of America is drawing to a close, with
the Iraq invasion standing as the final act of imperial hubris. As the
Pentagon securocrats rightly predict, the emerging economies of the
Bric nations - Brazil, Russia, India and China - are starting to flex
their political and military muscles. The dollar's financial dominance
is crumbling. Meanwhile, Bollywood and Nollywood (Nigeria's nascent
film industry) are beginning to challenge the cultural prowess of
Hollywood. In the coming decades, globalisation will no longer stand as
a byword for Americanisation.

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/23/america-empire]Tristram Hunt[/url] كتب:


It is President-elect Obama's bad luck to have to oversee the
dismantling of the US empire on his watch. And it will take all his
political suppleness and rhetorical genius to spell it out to the
American people. But we too need to begin the process of reinterpreting
our place in the world. Having already lost one empire, it might prove
rather easier this time.