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Life's experiences teach us that the ones at the top are always the ones targeted by others to bring down and replace--with no one else but themselves.
Why Our Enemies--And Friends--Hate Us
By Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times
February 26, 2007
In the 1990s, Madeleine Albright pompously called the United States "the indispensable nation." Today it seems to have become the indefensible nation, even in the eyes of its supposed friends.
Orwell would have understood. Just as it was the educated beneficiaries of British rule in Asia who were the most strident anti-imperialists in Orwell's day, so the British empire's most natural allies France and the United States were anything but Anglophile. For it turns out that power not only corrupts. It also tends to isolate.
There is, after all, a reason why they say it's lonely at the top.
for full article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ferguson26feb26,0,5329250.column?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Why Our Enemies--And Friends--Hate Us
By Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times
February 26, 2007
In the 1990s, Madeleine Albright pompously called the United States "the indispensable nation." Today it seems to have become the indefensible nation, even in the eyes of its supposed friends.
Orwell would have understood. Just as it was the educated beneficiaries of British rule in Asia who were the most strident anti-imperialists in Orwell's day, so the British empire's most natural allies France and the United States were anything but Anglophile. For it turns out that power not only corrupts. It also tends to isolate.
There is, after all, a reason why they say it's lonely at the top.
for full article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ferguson26feb26,0,5329250.column?coll=la-opinion-rightrail