Fareed makes a great point in his article regarding the decline of America and its fate. He mentions that the main story is not Islamic terrorism but the fate of the United States 50 years from now. George W. Bush had inherited a budget surplus from the Bill Clinton. America was the “indispensable nation,". Currently today the US is a deeply divided country in social terms. Thiers’s a big gap between rich and poor such as the day of the recession. The country is fighting with itself internally. It has a Congress where there is conflict between the right (Republican) and the left (Democrats) and where they don't even want to talk to each other to discuss on a resolution for Americas bankruptcy problems and threats. The reason the U.S became great was because of its openness and democratic way. Now, it has become distrustful against foreigners, and anyone who is different which is not the theology the U.S was founded on . In U.S territory now we hunt down illegal immigrants and many people can still not accept having a black president in the White House. It’s interesting to see in the article how the event of 9/11 is attributed to the decline of America. No matter how you measure it, the United States remains the single most influential country economically, politically, diplomatically and militarily. For most of the past years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady, generating higher incomes and wealth for American people. But since 2000 there has been a sharp decline in that trend of growth. The past decade has been the worst for the U.S. The U.S has been faced with high unemployment, stagnant wages, the protracted debate over raising the government debt ceiling and the downgrade of U.S. The problem of America’s decline is worsened by the rise of other power countries. There are other countries that have the potential towards achieving superpower status within the