US and them
Sir: David Selbourne seems to suffer from tunnel vision in his analysis of failing US imperial ambitions (‘No more Pax Americana’, 14 April). He seems to believe that Islamism is its undoing and makes no mention of nationalism — a far more potent force.
American imperialism is being resisted in Latin America as well as in the Middle East, and the common thread is nationalism, not Islamism.
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