Spengler's Star Trek

You had best read Spengler again; Asia Times Spengler, not Oswald Spengler - although I suppose Oswald would not hurt you...too much. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KB18Dj05.html Obama, an economic unilateralist By Spengler The silliest thing that clever people are saying about the world economic crisis is that the United States will lose its position as the dominant world superpower in consequence. On the contrary: the crisis strengthens the relative position of the United States and exposes the far graver weaknesses of all prospective competitors. It makes the debt of the American government the world's most desirable asset. America may deserve to decline, but as Clint Eastwood said in another context, "deserve's got nothing to do with it". President Barack Obama may turn out to be the most egregious unilateralist in American history... Read the article referenced: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JL09Dj02.html Benedict XVI is magnificently right and you may also feel that the future - the next frontier - does not belong to a bunch of self-indulgent, self-actualizing consumers. It belongs to those who have a vision of something great, and who devote themselves to it. We who live in America AND have a new vision of the future are those most propitiously positioned to create the future. Amen.