destabilising the economy, which affects other global economies through international contagion. I have to admit Sunny, I usually find your articles rather superficial and sloppy,* but this was a very good piece of journalism. Certainly made me pause for thought. *I think part of the problem is the word limit you decide to impose on yourself: in longer articles such as this, you have more opportunity to develop an argument. This is just the opinion of one regular reader (but irregular poster), but I think you'd be well served to write at length more often. You managed, four years ago, to convince me, as did the man, that he would make a difference. And he has, but it is salami slicing to think that he has made a major difference in US foreign policy, which is argueably where he impacts on the rest of us. I would have thought that most of us are glad that Bin Laden is dead. I would have thought that most of us are glad that the likelyhood on a pre-emptive strike on Iran is less likely now. Beyond that, why should we care whether the US has a daft medicare system or not? We are not America, despite some wishing us to do a reverse ferret and become a US state. I can appreciate that you care, but, absent the comments above, why should we? Why should we? In my experience, people don't care because they should , they just care. If you see