A Decade of Self-Delusion

According to the International Monetary Fund, the United States began the century producing 32 percent of the world's gross domestic product. We ended the decade producing 24 percent. No nation in modern history, save for the late Soviet Union, has seen so precipitous a decline in relative power in a single decade.

A Decade of Self-Delusion - HUMAN EVENTS

Comments: Pat Buchanan’s good article. Maybe if we stop waiving flags and lying to ourselves long enough to admit the truth, things can improve, however unlikely. Remember Ross Perot’s “giant sucking sound”? We now have proof and still few people care or will admit to it. Let’s try Mr. Buchanan’s isolationism … globalism isn’t working.