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Yes, America leads the World. I like to think we Americans learn from other people and cultures, really our own ancestral cultures and countries, because we really are from everywhere else around this Globe. If you want to call our Leadership a form of Arrogance, be my guest. We are the New Atlantis. When I cast my gimlet gaze at other Countries around the World, or even just at the United Nations here in New York City, I am often times sorely disappointed, to put it mildly. But there is a lot to be encouraged about, too. The main theme of America's success, I think, is constraining governmental authority, so that people and individuals can thrive. This is fundamentally the lesson that Bush and Cheney have so appallingly forgotten. Governmental authorities are spendthrift, squandering, wastrels. Individuals, communities, parents and small groups are frugal, Hue, microcredit, enabling, creative, productive and contributing. War is Waste. Peace is Productive. Even so, I think wading into Iraq and the Middle East may prove to have been the best course of action for America, in the long run. Especially when we finish there, and come to your Country to straighten things out as necessary where you live.
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