[Nicholas Conradin]

A shorter version of this essay recently appeared in the Australian Financial Review

[Nicholas Conradin]

ping

[WashingtonSource]

Interesting insight. However, I'm not sure Americans are losing their support for the war because they don't want American blood to be shed in an internal squabble -- or because the media have grossly misrepresented what is going on in Iraq. I suspect the latter.

[ImpBill]

"So there is real danger from the fallout from Iraq. But it is not that the United States must pack up, in an admission of its new limitations. Rather the daily mayhem and its attendant criticism have tired Americans to the point that the notion of pulling in our horns and letting the world be seems attractive and guilt-free as never before."

One thing the left and the libertines have much in common.

You tell it like it is VDH!

[Nicholas Conradin]

Oops, already posted. Sorry about the dup.

[LS]

"China will soon have a rough rendezvous with environmentalism, unionism, suburban malaise, and most of the other dislocations that the West has long ago weathered from the onset of industrialization in the nineteenth century."

Was recently at a conference where Charles Wolf, a China specialist for the RAND corporation, presented a paper on challenges for China. He had economic impacts, and so on, but the bottom line is that he pretty much agreed with Hanson's conclusion: not only is China almost certain to hit SOME of these roadblocks to growth, but in all likelihood will hit ALL of them and even more, including (believe it or not) a massive AIDs outbreak that has not been contained and, of course, political upheaval.

Whatever growth rates people have penciled in for China might want to revise them downward significantly for the next 20 years.

[Tolik]

Thank you

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