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-> But here it is anyways
-> But here it is anyways
A Campaign That Failed
By Jim Hoaglan
Sunday, October 31, 2004; Page B07
Rip Van America will soon awake in a world that changed as the campaign spun. After a yearlong political binge that has consumed billions of dollars, oceans of national energy and attention, and the credibility of the country's two major political parties, old Rip has adjustments to make.
Peering out through a pulsating election hangover, Rip will perceive that while the United States was so self-absorbed, China accelerated its breathtaking run to become a global financial center, the world's manufacturing hub and the price-setting consumer of oil and other commodities.
.. on and on
China, India and Japan have been creating an economic platform to make
this the Asian century, while U.S. resources, manpower and policy initiatives
have been poured into the dangerous conflicts of the greater Middle East.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10801-2004Oct29.html