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Re: Fw: [osint] Reflections On 'Containment' by Threehegemons 17 February 2002 17:14 UTC |
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I usually find Bruce Cumings to be among those who overrate US prospects in the world, but the paragraph below seems perfect (my 'first thoughts' on 9/11 too). For a more 'realistic' assessment of the world left than that offered by Wagar in the last post, see Wallerstein's current commentary. I have to say, considering that something like a 'world party' is now emerging (allowing for the inevitable differences in organization, the result of communication and consciousness transformations that have made bureaucratic structures seem a lot less modern than they used to), he seems awfully gloomy. Steve Sherman "The first thought that struck me after witnessing (on television) thousands of casualties resulting from an attack on the mainland, for the first time since 1812, was that over the long haul the American people may exercise their longstanding tendency to withdraw from a world deemed recalcitrant to their ministering and present Washington with a much different and eminently more difficult dilemma than the here-today, gone-tomorrow axis of evil: how to rally the citizens for a long twilight struggle to maintain an ill-understood American hegemony in a vastly changed world"
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