From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The National Interest, Spring 2005 Trading Places by Peter F. Drucker
... The United States may well remain the political and military leader for decades to come. It is likely also to remain the world's richest and most productive national economy for a long time ...
As Adam Smith said, "There is much ruin in a nation," but I think the US is set up for a more precipitous political-military-economic decline than that, based on what Drucker himself notes in the balance of his article. It's an interesting piece. No one makes magisterial pronouncements better than PFD. It's particularly impressive because Drucker is, I believe, 96. I heard him speak some 25 years ago, and he looked like Methuselah's grandfather then.
Carl
