>Doug asked why I shared London Mayor Boris Johnson's view that the
>United States were the last best hope of the world.
I think another of your compatriots who also grew up with a great fondness for the U.S. may be closer to the mark:
"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam..."
J.G. Ballard