In a couple of
recent posts, I have been commenting about a fantastic opening that the US now has to re-assert its prime position in this world. I am glad to add
this essay by Joshua Kurlantzick (
ht) as additional supporting arguments; here is the concluding paragraph in that piece:
Even at the worst moments, such as the period after 9/11 in which the Bush administration created the prison at Guantanamo Bay and allowed torture and other questionable tactics, I have rarely met anyone, in any country, who wanted to move to China, or India, or even Japan, rather than the United States. Foreigners may want to spend a few years in China or India or Indonesia, to see the dynamism of these places, but few, if any, have plans to become Chinese, Indian, or Indonesian citizens. Perhaps one day China or Indonesia or India will draw these migrants, who would come seeking the same dreams and openness as they do today in the United States. But it won’t be soon - and it might not even be this century.
Yes, sir! But, we have to work on it, eh! Not with this kind of an awfully chaotic political crap though .... How bad is it?
Krugman has the best line:
It’s so bad that I miss Newt Gingrich.
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