www.newshoggers.com — By Fester:
Brad Delong in 2007 wrote something that has stuck to me as a very useful analytical perspective in analyzing American policy for the next fifty years and the value of creating positive sum relationships: There is a good chance that China is now on the same path to world
preeminence that America walked 130 years ago. Come 2047 and again in
2071 and in the years after 2075, ...
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Bush Flubs Navy Aid Claim, Forgets Turkey
At-Largely —
... Saakashvili was smoking something if he thought a single destroyer or hospital ship was going to go up against the entire Russian Black Sea fleet or that the US military was going to take responsibility for Georgian ports and airports.
But McClatchy reports that the Turks, understandably miffed, are now dragging their feet. "The Turks haven't been helpful," said a State Department official. "They are being sluggish and unresponsive." Imagine that!
Ah, the unbearable arrogance of American exceptionalism.
(Meanwhile, the idiot John Bolton compares ...
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