The suspension of reality these past four years has allowed China to gain some valuable strategic ground in Asia. #msg-6590323
I stated on 9/9/2004 "Bush who sought hegemony will go down in history as the president who lost America’s dominance." #msg-4003259
The rise of China started long before Bush became president however, only through his extreme ineptness was the Middle Kingdom recently allowed to advance so rapidly during his tenure.
No greater sin can a president of the United States commit than to lose lone superpower status. This Bush has done.
The CFR the most influential of all private policy planning groups is now agreeing with my assessment, and is doing so in public criticism of their Caligula in the White House.
One of the prime characteristics of the U.S. upper class is its high level of organization. One of the central organizations, accurately called “the citadel of America’s establishment,” is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Founded in 1921, the CFR is the most influential of all private policy planning groups. Its great strength is mainly exercised behind the scenes and stems from its unique position among policy groups: it is simultaneously both a think tank for foreign and economic policy and also has a large membership comprising some of the most important individuals in U.S. economic, intellectual, and political life.
The CFR publishes Foreign Affairs magazine, which often prints study group recommendations written by a prominent CFR fellow or member and in this way shapes policy debates as they emerge. #msg-4250551
Hawks in the administration of President George W Bush may think they are tough, but their dreams of "regime change" in Iran and North Korea are increasingly deluded, not to say dangerous, according to their hard-edged realist rivals, who have become increasingly outspoken in recent weeks.
Their latest broadside comes in the form of an article by Richard Haass, president of the influential Council on Foreign Relations, in the forthcoming edition of the journal Foreign Affairs titled "The Limits of Regime Change".
Haass, who as head of the influential Policy Planning Office in the State Department during the first two years of the Bush administration, was a top adviser to Powell, argues in his Foreign Affairs article that the hawks' pursuit of regime change is flawed on many counts. #msg-6560763
The CFR would not criticize Bush and Company in such a manner unless they felt he was quite mad.
In an essay published recently in Foreign Affairs magazine, Peter G Peterson, secretary of commerce in the Nixon administration prophesised that the US are 'riding for a fall.' More and more analysts feel that one of the consequences of the US decline will see China taking the lead in the world during the 21st century. Hu Jintao and his colleagues in Beijing firmly believe this. The 'peaceful rise of China' means that Beijing will do everything to keep the image of a peaceful nation till China rises to the top in 2008. The date of the Olympics is not just symbolic. It is a long planned programme and the investment in gold medals is only a tiny aspect. #msg-4196244
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