What Tom Friedman describes today in the NYTimes is the latter days of an dying empire......
Americans have become fat, sassy and stupid...Americans have lost whatever edge they had in the 20th Century.
No one cares anymore....it's all just greed and looting on Wall Street and in Washington these days. Can anyone deny it?
The Bank of China is more powerful than the Fed now. China can cancel Fed policy on it's own.
Our trillion dollar military can not even handle a two-bit insurgency in Iraq....with our "volunteers" from the unemployed classes.
We even have Dubya, the Romulus Augustulus of our time......what a perfect choice!
The Barbarians are at the gates...but no one cares. Can America be saved? Perhaps, but not as a world power...these are the latter days of an empire, bankrupt both economically and intellectually.
