A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming.
...as if that would work any better. SPIEGEL Atlanticist Gabor Steingart should realise: the American Empire is coming to an end. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
... the American Empire is coming to an end.
If the American Empire is replaced by the Chinese Empire, the American Ampire is still over. no wishful thinking involved. (Personallly, I think the American Empire will be replaced by a multipolar world in which no country is powerful enough to dominate all others; but, due to the non-progressive nature of most if not all of the future major powers, that is no bright future either.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
There is an alternative interpretation which is that the seat of The Empire will move from the US to China. Whereas it is at least possible to argue that the British Empire just moved itself to the US, I don't think it can be argued for China. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
That is not an alternative interpretation of my own words. I wrote the American Empire is coming to an end, not the Empire. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Foreign correspondent disease exists in the States, too.
(I do wonder about marco's views)
