Friday, October 02, 2009

OBAMA, ANOTHER GORBACHEV

This comparison is intriguing and not one I had thought about, although it apparently has been discussed in some circles. It is from a Canadian columnist. He ended with a rather dismal projection.

With an incredible rapidity, America's status as the world's pre-eminent superpower is now passing away. This is a function both of the nearly systematic abandonment of U.S. interests and allies overseas, with metastasizing debt and bureaucracy on the home front.

And while I think the U.S. has the structural fortitude to survive the Obama presidency, it will be a much-diminished country that emerges from the "new physics" of hope and change

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