FWIW, Fareed Zakaria being interviewed on the Today show. The commentary that follows is pretty much what you'd expect.
<sigh> Nat >>> ZAKARIA: We have to adjust. First of all, it's a much more competitive world. We have to be benchmarking. We have to be asking ourselves, what's going on? Give you simple example. Meredith there are three countries in the world that have not adopted the metric system: Myanmar, Liberia, and the United States. So we look around the world and "We say, that's okay. Those standards are for you. We're special, we're different." And what I'm saying is that era of kind of "American exceptionalism" is over. VIEIRA: A real wake-up call. Fareed Zakaria, thank you very much. >>> http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/05/05/newsweek-editor-dec lares-era-american-exceptionalism-over
