Romesh Ratnesar
is Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. A former Time deputy managing editor and foreign editor, he has reported from many countries around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Writing
Good Neighbors
Time Magazine, July 5th, 2010
The world stage is not an easy place for the U.S. these days. The war in Afghanistan has become, speaking charitably, an unwinnable quagmire. Iran's nuclear program continues to steam ahead. The Middle East peace process remains mothballed. Our closest ally seethes about the Obama Administration's bullying of "British" Petroleum. At the World Cup, shoddy officiating nearly cost the U.S. a place in the second round. Even our wins turn into ties.