2005.3.26=6[#85]:4703.2.17[#46/60]: Leo painted? 0)"Stillborn Empire"

Nice sun & cloud: up 7:55, NHK dramas "Kagura" & "Good wife" ending today, managed fax room getting mom's medical documents, near 1pm drove mom to Rite shopping then to lunch of Chaojou noodle, o.h., to house Leo working, Mei left to buy for the house, so I was free to continue to smooth out front yard soil to side and closeby sprinkler ditch left-over 3:40 to 4:40, 5:30?-5:50 Leo helped neighbor down a tall tree, soon Mei back mad about my work tel sis, I left first 5:30, home planted one tomato from Luis, then full bath: shampoo hair, shaving, up/down nails, quickly emails and this, now 7:44, Lung also back then angry about Mei asking where he had gone. O.h. again "Winter Sonata" had already started, failed to find pen (after teeth a few days ago, then car key next day) again and again, so again late to bed 12:15. TOPIC: “The Stillborn Empire” by Patrick J. Buchanan, Novopress.info, March 26th, 2005: http://am.novopress.info/index.php?p=347 "" Did I miss something? Where did all the “not since Rome” bombast, talk of America’s “benevolent global hegemony,” “Pax Americana,” and the New World Order disappear to? Whatever happened to the “jodhpurs and pith helmets” crowd? Just a year ago, in the Irving Kristol Lecture at the annual AEI dinner, columnist Charles Krauthammer rhapsodized about America’s “global dominion” and our having “acquired the largest seeming empire in the history of the world.” We have “overwhelming global power,” said Krauthammer. We are history’s “designated custodians of the international system.” When the Soviet Union fell, “something new was born, something utterly new—a unipolar world dominated by a single superpower unchecked by any rival and with decisive reach in every corner of the globe. This is a staggering new development in history, not seen since the fall of Rome. … Even Rome is no model for what America is today.” Well, reality does have a way of intruding upon one’s fantasies, and, looking at our world today, it would seem multipolarism is making quite a comeback. ""