I started reading that Times piece and stopped after a fee paragraphs when I realized it was going to be the same old crap in a new wrapping. I'm glad you read it so I don't have to.
I would add one observation having just come from Europe and Israel. For better or worse everyone views American as the strongest country and the only one that can ensure the type of world we all want to live in. Not China, not Russia and not the EU. The world looks to America. This from ordinary folks you meet on the plane, in restaurants etc. We dare not give into the “multipolar” mirage, because it’s just that, a mirage. And we also dare not retreat into neo-isolationism
Excellent piece. Bravo for enduring the New York Times. Someone has to do it and I'm glad it's you. Makes my life more balanced knowing other's do some heavy lifting. I find it interesting that Obama put himself directly within the middle eastern situation on many occasions and when the Times omits this fact it only serves to suggest that he is a major player, as he's always been, today.
I started reading that Times piece and stopped after a fee paragraphs when I realized it was going to be the same old crap in a new wrapping. I'm glad you read it so I don't have to.
Bill
I would add one observation having just come from Europe and Israel. For better or worse everyone views American as the strongest country and the only one that can ensure the type of world we all want to live in. Not China, not Russia and not the EU. The world looks to America. This from ordinary folks you meet on the plane, in restaurants etc. We dare not give into the “multipolar” mirage, because it’s just that, a mirage. And we also dare not retreat into neo-isolationism
Excellent piece. Bravo for enduring the New York Times. Someone has to do it and I'm glad it's you. Makes my life more balanced knowing other's do some heavy lifting. I find it interesting that Obama put himself directly within the middle eastern situation on many occasions and when the Times omits this fact it only serves to suggest that he is a major player, as he's always been, today.
Bravo, Bill. The dots can be connected, just not the way the NYT does it.