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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.
One thing the left and the libertines have much in common.
You tell it like it is VDH!
Oops, already posted. Sorry about the dup.
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.
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