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Boy Assad will be gone before the end of Bush’s presidency; Crown Prince Abdullah will be lucky to ride out even his faux reforms; but even the naysayers have begun to accept that the Middle East is going Bush’s way. The real foreign-policy challenges in the immediate future are the stagnant EU, poor doomed Russia and China’s incoherent market-communism. If you were betting on only one happy ending, I’d take China
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So... this guy thinks the EU is 'stagnant'? That's a strange comment; the EU is the most dynamic and experimental of the world's transnational organizations. The level of integration it is pursuing (along a steady course) is unprecedented. The EU's diplomatic power has been increasing handily over the last decade. It is also 'coherent' enough to have representatives involved in all the major world issues, including Iran, Iraq, Africa, Fmr Yugoslavia, etc.
What is the basis of the 'richest' states at the top of his rant? Per capita? How many rich states under a million people are there? Monaco? Lichtenstein?
What's so great about this guy that makes him a 'gem'?