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VDH: Did Iraq Really Ruin the U.S.?
Damn, this guy can write. He has such a high-level view and yet is able to spell out what it means for us all. As with Steyn, I can always say "What he said."Writing of the decline of the West and the United States in particular has been a parlor game from the time of doomsayers Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee to Paul Kennedys pessimism of the 1980s. Now the most recent serial epitaphs center on the Anglo-American experience in Iraq that will soon end, it is foretold, in defeat and a global loss of American prestige to the detriment of the West at large. The extremists in the Middle East Hamas, Hezbollah, and their Iranian and Syrian sponsors are supposedly empowered as nearby Iraqi Islamists tie down the American Gulliver. Democracy, we are also lectured by They do have a point there. Meanwhile, China merrily pushes ahead, piling up U.S. dollars as it trolls the Middle East for oil contracts. Other petrocrats whether a Vladimir Putin or Hugo Chavez cause international mischief with impunity. And they seem to win a pass from a distracted America that lacks an energy policy, other than borrowing profligately to power its Hummers and Chevy Tahoes. Zing! Ouch! Posted by: Brett 2007-01-22 |
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