Comments on: Waiting in the Wings http://emergentink.com/2008/05/09/waiting-in-the-wings/ greater than the sum of its parts Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: il2sopc http://emergentink.com/2008/05/09/waiting-in-the-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-167 il2sopc Mon, 12 May 2008 03:38:40 +0000 http://emergentink.com/?p=105#comment-167 You MAY be quite right dog. Could be we screwed the pooch but good. You MAY be quite right dog. Could be we screwed the pooch but good.

]]> By: Well Dog My Cats JumpinGeehossifat http://emergentink.com/2008/05/09/waiting-in-the-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Well Dog My Cats JumpinGeehossifat Sat, 10 May 2008 08:03:35 +0000 http://emergentink.com/?p=105#comment-166 America <b> MAY</b> not be able to remain on the world stage as a “player.” Come on. It was obvious to most anyone at least a decade ago that this is China's century. At that time, America should have begun fashioning a path for itself as the world's "elder statesman"; leading the way to sustainable development and replacing force with diplomacy. 911 offered an incredible opening to the US to change its way and we have fully rejected that opening. I think it is too late to change, not for any geophysical reasons but simply because Americans, for the most part, are spoiled rotten. It appears that we will go the way of the Roman Empire. In that regard England should perhaps have been our model as they moved from the dominant power to a tattered remnant but then recovered to become a fairly reasonable member of the world community and empowered themselves within a greater European Union. Hilary's current battle to the death can be seen as the ultimate expression of American Exceptionalism; we just won't go quietly into that good night, the costs be damned. America MAY not be able to remain on the world stage as a “player.” Come on. It was obvious to most anyone at least a decade ago that this is China’s century. At that time, America should have begun fashioning a path for itself as the world’s “elder statesman”; leading the way to sustainable development and replacing force with diplomacy. 911 offered an incredible opening to the US to change its way and we have fully rejected that opening. I think it is too late to change, not for any geophysical reasons but simply because Americans, for the most part, are spoiled rotten.

It appears that we will go the way of the Roman Empire. In that regard England should perhaps have been our model as they moved from the dominant power to a tattered remnant but then recovered to become a fairly reasonable member of the world community and empowered themselves within a greater European Union. Hilary’s current battle to the death can be seen as the ultimate expression of American Exceptionalism; we just won’t go quietly into that good night, the costs be damned.

]]> By: Well Dog My Cats JumpinGeehossifat http://emergentink.com/2008/05/09/waiting-in-the-wings/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Well Dog My Cats JumpinGeehossifat Sat, 10 May 2008 07:38:25 +0000 http://emergentink.com/?p=105#comment-164 The "wings" are the area just offstage, a place were actors wait to make their entrance. The “wings” are the area just offstage, a place were actors wait to make their entrance.

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