America Rules....

Every ten years or so, there are people prophesying the end of the "American Empire". Of course, some people see - in corrolation with 9/11 and the Katrina disaster - signs of the coming demise of the power of the United-States. Last night, one of the Sunday news program on French TV was just about that. It was titled "Les Etats-Unis, un colosse aux pieds d'argile?" [The United-States, an Idol with Feet of Clay?]. A variety of guests with different opinions were discussing this very European question... and Americanophobe Emmanel Todd was particularly scathing about the U.S. and that is no surprise when you know what he writes. Now to answer Mr Todd's idiotic argument, here's a small illustration of the coming end of the American Empire .... or is it?:

America boasts 17 of the world's top 20 universities, according to a widely used global ranking by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Britain has two and Japan has one. France has none.
American universities currently employ 70% of the world's Nobel prize-winners, 30% of the world's output of articles on science and engineering, and 44% of the most frequently cited articles. Source to be found here.