<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 3/28/05 12:11:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, lbo-talk-request@lbo-talk.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> Doug: > True or not, that has nothing to do with Harvey's argument, which is > that Bush's hyperaggressive foreign policy is a compensation for > economic decline. When I asked Harvey "decline relative to whom?," he > really didn't have a good answer. </BLOCKQUOTE> On a purely impressionistic basis one would think that American power has declined from its post-war zenith relative to Europe, Japan and the newer Asian economies. It may be helpful to look at the US share in world production from 1945 to the present. Does Doug or anyone else have stats on this?</HTML>