UK going global?

[Carl Remick]

>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>I have to wonder, though, if Britain's old and new imperial
>>escapades have anything to do with the mystery that Doug posed
>>earlier:  "The story of British decline is a very interesting one,
>>and I'm curious why this inventiveness bore so little industrial
>>fruit. I know the story of the ascendance of financial over
>>manufacturing interests and the failure of British firms to get big
>>and professionally managed enough, but I was eager to hear more,
>>either solid history or airy speculation."
>>
>>My speculation is that Britain's enduring compulsion to be a global
>>busybody has taken its toll of mundane matters like the national
>>economy.
>
>Yeah, but it didn't hurt the U.S., did it? Paul Kennedy's looking
>more obsolete than 80s power suits (for women).
>
>Doug

"Didn't hurt the U.S."?  As I look around this fat, dumb, trigger-happy 
country and ponder the toll of imperial overstretch, I see signs of moral 
and material ruination everywhere.  But as I've said before, I'm a gloomy 
guy.

Carl

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