#3 Long past time we stopped wasting so much time with Europe. Sorry in advance to our Euro friends and True __ Allies, but it's imperative that we start focusing, seriously, on Asia. Zoellick will help in this regard. The Asian challenge is at least as much economic as military, and neither Powell nro Armitage had a clue on economic matters.
Maybe this is a sign that the first phase of the War on Terror is drawing to a close, and that we can soon get back to the really big issues facing us in this century: managing China's rise and the disturbance to the international state system it heralds, dealing with our weird status as both superpower and super-debtor nation, helping Japan integrate itself into the international power balance again, forging a productive relationship with India....
Note that none of the above really has much to do with NATO or our relations with Europe. Look west, Americans. Asian Century now. |