>Yes, this is similar to the point I try to make -- from time to time -- when I
>say it's not insignificant (though I think the full significance is
>not yet fully
>understood) that there's practically no area of the modern enterprise in which
>Americans possess a monopoly of expertise.
I agree with this (and Seth's points too), but again, this has been around a while - it's not an innovation that can explain the Bush turn in foreign policy. Especially since the neocons conceived that turn during the 1990s, when the US economy was widely seen as the eighth wonder of the world.
Doug