'Americans Are In A Political Blindness'
Author of <i >The Idea of India</i>, Sunil Khilnani is currently director of the South Asia Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University. Excerpts from an interview:
Explain the dichotomy between what the world wanted and what the Americans finally delivered.
Globally, most people were rooting for Kerry. Does this verdict symbolise the intellectual/emotional isolation of the US?
Most Americans seem to feel Bush was right on Iraq, that he'd done enough to get bin Laden. Clearly there were monumental errors of policy along the way.
Does this verdict suggest that America is intensely polarised?
The US is a country of the middle classes, but it seems they, with the super-rich, see Bush as the saviour. How can this be, with people losing jobs, healthcare?
Will he divide the world further?
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