--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 02/11/2011 04:16 PM, Tom Pall wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote: > > > >> On 02/11/2011 10:20 AM, merudanda wrote: > >>> But if detailed prognostication is foolish and presumptuous, some things > >>> can be said with confidence. No regime that follows Mubarak's in > >>> Cairo is likely to be as friendly to Washington. More generally, > >>> American policy is unraveling throughout the Middle East, and far > >>> beyond. We are witnessing an historic eclipse of U.S. power. > >>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/opinion/11iht-edwheatcroft11.html > >>> http://tinyurl.com/4jqg23z > >> About time because such power costs Americans way too much in taxes. > >> > >> > > And such power doesn't cost us a bundle giving money to Israel? Time to > > take the water wings off of Israel and let the nation swim on its own. > > I whole heartedly agree. We just gave them around $21 billion. The US > is broke and had no business doing so. >
And doesn't Mubarek have a fortune himself? - probably some of that loot we have been sending to Egypt ended up in his own bank accounts. From what I have read, its sounds as if the US really is pretty broke - on every level - towns, counties, states, national. I expect that quite soon people in the US are going to say enough to foreign aid to many nations. Right now, however, we are still operating based on the old ways. Somehow, a related topic: I see the US as fading, and fast. We are broke, our students don't do well on knowledge exams when compared to other countries, and we are so diverse and huge that it is hard to get people educated about anything and to arrive at any sort of sane consensus. Then there is for me the big and most depressing issue of all - climate change (disclosure - I am reading the book called Hot). That is the game changer for the planet. We're all cooked, but some more than others. The Netherlands has had a 200 Year Climate Change plan in effect for a few years now. Yes, 200 years, not 20. Here in the US, people are still racing to buy SUV's and scoffing at the science as if it is a political issue. OY.
