Re: Afghanistan Combat Will Define NATO’s Future at Summit in Riga
On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Angelus Novus wrote:
It will just mean that the U.S. will have to relinquish a little bit of its power to other state actors.
Easy for you to say. It’s very hard to imagine the US political
system ever accepting such a thing gracefully.
I think I’ve quoted this observation from Wall Street economist
Albert Wojnilower before, but it’s worth quoting again: “Americans
are and show every sign of remaining, in contrast with Japan, a short-
term oriented, mercurial, polyglot, multiethnic, mobile and heavily
armed people. Claims on such a people need to be accumulated and
exercised with care.”