Election America!

[j2k4]

I've gotten beyond chess as a metaphor for political machinations.

Busy couple of days you had there then.

Busy had nothing to do with it, but time flies, just the same.

[JPaul]

Busy couple of days you had there then.

Busy had nothing to do with it, but time flies, just the same.

It certainly does metaphorically.

[j2k4]

However, that suggests a degree of intelligent intervention that I am not convinced the Bush administration actually had in arriving at this point. So it might be better to view it as merely fortutitous. That said the idea that the Chinese much less the EU are looking for the US stumble is a little wide of the mark imho. In our global village everybody is far too busy selling stuff to each other to worry overly about dogma.

Quite right, especially your last.

Other large players are learning the benefits of a flat-earth system of trading goods and services, and this bodes well for global stability.

The U.S. has to adapt as well as everyone else; India and China, for example, have no reason to make the mistakes the U.S. has, nor the same ruts to clamber out of.

Some decry the trend, and mischaracterize it as outsourcing, but it has been the greatest contributor to global economic formation and growth to date.

[j2k4]

Busy had nothing to do with it, but time flies, just the same.

It certainly does metaphorically.

Yes.

I got over the chess thingie in, what......just a little more than 24 hours?

You know it, you were there for the whole thing.