The World After Bush

In any event, the Atlantic is likely to grow even wider after Bush leaves office in 2009. Those who hope for a resumption of warm transatlantic ties will probably be disappointed. The old Atlanticist northeastern foreign policy establishment has gone the way of the dodo. Its place has been taken chiefly by career military officers, who are mainly moderate conservative nationalists from the American south, and by a bewildering variety of civilian ideological, ethnic and economic pressure groups that contribute political appointees to the executive branch. The political centre of gravity in the US will continue to shift south and west. Even if blue-state liberalism wins power, it will do so on the basis of largely foreign-born Latino immigrants in the sunbelt, who are not a likely constituency for a new Atlanticism. http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7888

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