“ONE THING I MISS IS THE TIME AMERICA HAD BIG DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE" -ANDY WARHOL

Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria offered the soothing reassurance that it was not about “the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else”. His fellow pundit, Tom Friedman of The New York Times, noted ruefully of his summer visit to Beijing: “China has been preparing for the Olympics; we have been preparing for al Qa’eda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armoured Humvees and pilotless drones…When you see how much modern infrastructure has been built in China since 2001…and you see how much infrastructure has been postponed in America since 2001…it’s clear that the next seven years need to be devoted to nation-building in America.”

-The National
Sept 20 2008