[PEN-L:1325] Re: The angst of a ruling-class ideologue

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> FOREIGN AFFAIRS / THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
>
> Beware the Ides of August
             ...................................................
> America is a superpower, but it's not omnipotent. It needs to decide where
> it can make a difference, where it can only coach and where it is just
> copping out. In Iraq, it is just copping out. In Asia the U.S. can make a
> difference by encouraging governments there to broaden their social safety
> nets to catch some of those brutalized and unemployed by the latest
> economic meltdowns, so this transition to real free-market capitalism is
> not derailed. In Russia, the U.S., Germany and the I.M.F. can offer aid,
> but only if the Communist-led Duma passes all the necessary reforms and
> Russia's greedy capitalist oligarchs are broken.

Wow, do you think the FBI knows about this guy?

> It's ironic: A strong Russia under Stalin could never bring the West to
> heel, but a weak Russia under capitalism can, if the West doesn't insulate
> itself. Which is why Bill Clinton needs to right himself fast, so that he
> is not just occupying the Presidency but exercising it. America needs a
> President. The world needs one even more.               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Never mind that, do _the Christians_ know about him?!

                                                                   valis