The December issue of Foreign Policy magazine features an essay by Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, which asks " How's That New World Order Working Out ?" The timing could not be better. A U.S. carrier strike group is sailing into the Yellow Sea in a show of force against a China-supported North Korea that has just unveiled a new uranium enrichment facility. And WikiLeaks has revealed Arab calls for a preemptive attack on Iran over its nuclear program. The 21st century was supposed to be different from a 20th century rent by wars cold and hot. Khanna commentary raises points that are both insightful and problematic. A little over 20 years ago, then U.S. President George H.W. Bush -- who had just witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall and saw the Soviet Union disintegrating before his very eyes -- stood at the granite podium of the U.N. General Assembly in New York and proclaimed a "new world order," a U.S.-dominated international...(Read Full Post)