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Old 09-11-2010, 08:45 PM
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This just out. We're number 1 ...........................1. Make that 11.
Tom Friedman addresses this issue today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/op...iedman.html?hp
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Eh, what do you expect from a Communist rag like Newsweek?

Finland.......Pfffffft!!!

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I beginning to wonder if it isn't our "exceptionalism" that's killing us.

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No mention that those other 10 better countries than us operate under the protection of the US security umbrella.

The world will be sad when we lose the #1 superpower status, whether they recognise it now or not.

And so will we.

They talk about student motivation. No surprise, it's very cool to almost mock their own country! Over in China they are proud.

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Pete you are dreaming again. Protective umbrella my arse, right at the moment we have so much on our plate we can't even go after the Somalia pirates.
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Pete you are dreaming again. Protective umbrella my arse, right at the moment we have so much on our plate we can't even go after the Somalia pirates.
True dat. Those boxcutter wielders are giving us all we can handle in Afghanistan.
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American "Exceptionalism"?
Yes we are. What other country can bulshit it's citizenry so totally that half the country has no clew they are being screwed and vote for more screwing?
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No mention that those other 10 better countries than us operate under the protection of the US security umbrella.

The world will be sad when we lose the #1 superpower status, whether they recognise it now or not.

And so will we.

They talk about student motivation. No surprise, it's very cool to almost mock their own country! Over in China they are proud.

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you really need to lay off that cool-aid it's way unhealthy
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I can't help it if the left doesn't wish to recognise the FACT that the US stabilizes a large chunk of the planet and just about the entire 1st world.

We walk, the global economy crashes, including ours.

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