"'America failed its exam as a superpower,' says Lech Walesa, the former Solidarity trade-union leader who became Poland's first post-Communist president. 'They are a military and economic superpower but not morally or politically anymore. This is a tragedy for us.' Mr. Walesa laments what he sees as America's squandered leadership because he thinks the EU isn't ready for prime time.... [C]an Europe offer itself and the wider world a vision to match, and perhaps one day even supplant, America's role as 'leader of the free world'?"
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22 Dec 04
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: A Weblog
Thursday, December 23, 2004
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