The End of the World

Are you ready?

I mentioned in this space a few weeks ago the IMF’s calculation that China will become the planet’s leading economic power by the year 2016. And I added that, if that proves correct, it means the fellow elected next November will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world’s dominant economy. I thought that line might catch on. After all, we’re always told that every election is the most critical consequential watershed election of all time, but this one actually would be: For the first time since Grover Cleveland’s first term, America would be electing a global also-ran. But there’s not a lot of sense of America’s looming date with destiny in these presidential debates.... On Thursday night, there was a question on gays in the military but none on the accelerating European debt crisis. 
It's a small matter. If the world as we know it does end, all the gays will be involved in the war.

3 comments:

William said...

Life does indeed seem on the brink of becoming very interesting....

William sends.

Eric said...

Steyn hates the IMF, yet quotes it when it suits his polemics.

He should run for office then. I am tired of these talkers.

Ymar Sakar said...

There'll be a war in the US before there'll be another war in the world.

As for being tired, if wishes were fishes, the world would never know hunger. Accept reality or reject it. There is no other choice.