Deeds, Not Words: A Progressive Alternative to the Bush Doctrine: "Bush's security policy has backfired. 'A new world order is indeed emerging,' Lind wrote, but Bush's strategies have generated so much ill-will abroad that 'its architecture is being drafted in Asia and Europe, at meetings to which Americans have not been invited.'
'Practically all new international institution-building of any long-term importance in global diplomacy and trade occurs without American participation.'
A fascinating and underreported 119-page study, 'Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project,' recently issued by the CIA's National Intelligence Council, underscores Lind's arguments by highlighting the steep decline of US moral, political and economic capital. Available on the CIA's website, the report predicts that in 2020 China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and other nations will have emerged as powerful rivals to US global dominance, 'transform[ing] the geopolitical landscape' and significantly eroding US power. "
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