America's changing agenda

Corriere della Sera newspaper describes the changes in American foreign policy in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center: "Ground Zero is and remains the wounded heart of America, but seven years after the terror attack the anniversary only finds a space in the media because it unites [presidential candidates] Obama and McCain. The gigantic hole is less and less a temple of remembrance, and increasingly a symbolic place in a country that can no longer find a solution to its problems. ... It is the sign of a changing tide in the American agenda. ... Foreign policy plays an important role in the camps of both Obama and McCain, but the war against stateless terror has been displaced. The nuclear threat no longer wears the blurred features of Bin Laden, but the distinctive profile of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The setting has changed. The world is no longer unipolar, one in which the American empire is menaced by groups hiding in the shadows. It has become multipolar, with many trouble spots."

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