The American century - its end can already be glimpsed on the horizon.

[kansasblue]

If you want to know what London was like in 1905, come to Washington in 2005. gnawing away beneath the surface, the nagging fear that your global supremacy is not half so secure as you would wish.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5270050-110878,00.html

Timothy Garton Ash in Stanford
Thursday August 25, 2005

Guardian

[stillcool]

1. I wonder who he thinks these people are...

"A few far-sighted people in Washington are beginning to formulate a long-term American strategy of trying to create an international order that would protect the interests of liberal democracies even when American hyperpower has faded; and to encourage rising powers such as India and China to sign up to such an order. That is exactly what today's weary Titan should be doing, and we should help him do it."

....if only....

[kansasblue]

2. I read that. It's like there's a group that know all is going to shit...

and letting it happen and is going to work with the pieces.

[bemildred]

3. Yeah, fat chance, like Bolton has a secret agenda ...

:rofl: