[lbo-talk] America the choo-choo

[Carl Remick]

[As good sanity hygiene I rarely finish reading David Brooks' predictably 
hallucinatory columns, and the one excerpted below was no exception.  Gotta 
love DB's imagery here though (but I don't think he intends quite this 
meaning):  the USA as global runaway locomotive ... with all the world's 
population tied to the tracks.]

February 1, 2007
The Iraq Syndrome, R.I.P.
By DAVID BROOKS

... Americans are having a debate about how to proceed in Iraq, but we are 
not having a strategic debate about retracting American power and influence. 
What’s most important about this debate is what doesn’t need to be said. No 
major American leader doubts that America must remain, as Dean Acheson put 
it, the locomotive of the world. ...

<http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/opinion/01brooks.html?hp>

Carl

_________________________________________________________________
Turn searches into helpful donations. Make your search count. 
http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_donation&FORM=WLMTAG