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American History

bemildred

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3. That's quite true, but relative power is what matters, what was desired, what was striven for.

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:48 AM

Apr 2012

If you want to be a World hegemon, enforcer of the Washington Consensus, that's what you need. The fact is we have falied to do what we set out to do, and then some, any way you look at it. And yet we still have the same set of clowns running things and shoving their noses deep in the public trough.

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Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline [View all] ellisonz Apr 2012 OP

I've lived here all my life. bemildred Apr 2012 #1

We are only declining in relative power, not absolute power. Odin2005 Apr 2012 #2

That's quite true, but relative power is what matters, what was desired, what was striven for. bemildred Apr 2012 #3

I don't think this article is really saying much. limpyhobbler Apr 2012 #4