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Brooks also expressed his pessimism about the ability of Middle Easterners and Americans to imagine a shared future both with members of their respective societies and within the global community, as Americans become more divided by educational achievement and Middle Easterners remain divided by religious ideology.
Americans carried a “powerful sense of universalism,” during the 1990s after the Cold War, Brooks said. U.S. ideology seemed triumphant and the Soviet Union had apparently embraced democracy, with other European countries in tow.
Brooks said that he remains an “unabashed fan of McCain.” Keeping with McCain’s “straight-talk” campaign slogan, Brooks said that when McCain tells him something, he has no problem putting it in his column, because he trusts that McCain is not lying.
