Americans: "We are not who we think we are"

kmcolo

5-9-2008 8:31 AM

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My own totally unscientific polling has left me feeling that if there is one overwhelming hunger in our country today it’s this: People want to do nation-building. They really do. But they want to do nation-building in America.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?em&ex=1210478400&en=77e96b0ffbbd0a98&ei=5087%0A">They are not only tired of nation-building in Iraq and in Afghanistan, with so little to show for it. They sense something deeper  —  that we’re just not that strong anymore.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?em&ex=1210478400&en=77e96b0ffbbd0a98&ei=5087%0A"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/D3AC1A52-E1A0-4D05-8025-126CEDA4D0DD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?em&ex=1210478400&en=77e96b0ffbbd0a98&ei=5087%0A"> Our president’s latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?em&ex=1210478400&en=77e96b0ffbbd0a98&ei=5087%0A">the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?em&ex=1210478400&en=77e96b0ffbbd0a98&ei=5087%0A"><P> Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AE97A83E-2D55-4698-8669-85EF16271B46/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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5-9-2008 10:55 AM

Kauaiguy

Contrary to Friedman's views, I think many of America's problems stem from trying to be number one. Global dominance should not be a goal. Friedman's complaint that, "Our generals regularly tell us that Iran is subverting our efforts in Iraq" is asinine. It was subversion on the part of this administration to invade Iraq. Nearly every American "efffort" in Iraq has been subversive. Blame Iran for our own botch job? Why not?

5-10-2008 2:21 PM