Tom Friedman's column appears in the Sunday New York Times.

Well, the numbers are in and the numbers don't lie.

The more I hear ... the more I wonder whether we are witnessing something much larger ...

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of "the West" as we have known it ...?

I am not alone in thinking this.

So, if in fact we are not at the end of history, then perhaps Tom is on to something here.

It's less about the individual governments and more about the connections between them, or lack thereof.

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The End of the West?