"Gates is not going to concede the US has failed. After all, one guy with a
$35 domain name and a keyboard can't make such a great country look like
it's run by bumbling idiots."

In modern politics, one must save face above everything else.

So, that doesn't mean Gates is lying.  It just means he saying something
that minimizes the damages, regardless of truth.


J

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Not only have intellectuals been insulated from material consequences, they
have often enjoyed immunity from even a loss of reputation after having been
demonstrably wrong - Thomas Sowell


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