Friday, March 18, 2005

New Paul Krugman Column

Here. (This time, no registration required.) This one's good - about Paul Wolfowitz and the growing rejection of the "Washington Consensus" around the world, but especially in Latin America. Key graph:
Not long ago, the growing alienation of Latin America from the United States would have been considered a major foreign policy setback. So much has gone wrong lately that we've defined disaster down, but it's still not a good thing. [emphasis mine]
That pretty much sums up Bush's first four years nicely, doesn't it? We've defined disaster down.

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