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To: AndyJackson

No, I think you missed the point.

America's success has nothing to do with government policies or individuals such as the author of this summary of old news and facts.

It has everything to do with innovation and prosperity. Those two things rest on the energy, spirit and drive of America's free markets and the individuals that keep those markets on the cutting edge. It has nothing to do with the War College, Rumsfield or the current view that Chiina needs more energy and less centralization, etc.

The War College and its league cannot invent a prosperous society as a means of supplanting a warlike culture. To see this, note that the policies and strategies the author summarizes have existed for decades.

The problem is that the American prosperity model is rejected in cultures that are vertically concentrated. Although injections of economic products and services can help erode this vertical concentration, such injections more often than not must be imposed by force.

So the author has found himself a bone from which he can generate what I described before as generic chit-chat, suitable for filling conference schedules with something that appears somewhat current, i.e. he's a boe.


73 posted on 09/05/2004 11:18:02 PM PDT by Hostage
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To: Hostage
America's success has nothing to do with government policies or individuals such as the author of this summary of old news and facts. It has everything to do with innovation and prosperity.

I am not sure where you think you have a disagreement with the author. Is it that he points out the obviously true fact that increasingly we consume goods produeced outside of the U.S., paid for by debt that is purchased by those countries (evidence is the balance of trade figures and the figures on who buys our debt). He asks a question worthy of answer, which is why do foreign entities buy so much of our debt? His answer is because we provide global security.

77 posted on 09/06/2004 6:02:14 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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