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“A few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Singapore. In J.F.K.’s waiting lounge we could barely find a place to sit. Eighteen hours later, we landed at Singapore’s ultramodern airport, with free Internet portals and children’s play zones throughout. We felt, as we have before, like we had just flown from the Flintstones to the Jetsons. If all Americans could compare Berlin’s luxurious central train station today with the grimy, decrepit Penn Station in New York City, they would swear we were the ones who lost World War II.“
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Who Will Tell the People? - Thomas L. Friedman - NYT

Friedman (questo, non quell’altro figlio di cane) è molto lucido ed in gamba nel denunciare l’immobilismo e la mancanza di prospettive della politica USA (vedi anche questo pezzo sulla miope strategia energetica)

ho l’impressione che, per una volta tanto, dopo aver seguito tutte le orme del potere imperiale - politiche, estetiche, belliche - con un certo ritardo, saremo in perfetta sintonia con l’alleato, ora che si declina sul serio 

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