Why is it that other nations and their people can

[pleiku52cab]

see what our nation has become, and 51%(?) of Americans are blind to the truth? As Lech Walesa said we're a "failed superpower".

[goddess40]

1. American's don't want the truth, they just want to feel good

and feel superior. If a lie helps them achieve that feeling they will buy it hook, line and sinker.
At least those that voted for *, the apathetic and those that think I got mine screw you (but most of these people voted for *)

[OneBlueSky]

2. because our media has largely become . . .

a house organ for the corporate oligarchy, i.e. BushCo . . . many other countries still have a free press that actually reports the news instead of either ignoring it or massaging it . . .

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. A brilliant read

It's a book that was a best-seller in France and Germany, but got nowhere in the United States - naturally.

By Emmanuel Todd - "After The Empire" - the author, a sociologist/anthropologist accurately predicted the demise of the Soviet Empire, and he also explained, before it happened, why it would fall.

"After The Empire" sets it all out, in clear and sometimes dense language, but he explains, very succinctly, what the United States has become, why, and how it must - but probably won't - change in order to become a functioning and respected member of the global community.

I recommend it to everyone.

Here's a good quote from the book accompanying a very graphic Christmas greeting: http://tinyurl.com/4huxe