The extinction of GM may very well mark the end of the postwar supremacy

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of the U.S. in economic and political matters.No longer will it be possible for the U.S. to say its way is the best way and that the world must obey its dictates.And as the U.S.,following GM, shrinks its usual role as the wolrd's premier predator nation, hopefully, the wolrd can return to some semblance of sanity.

But that poses another problem altogether.That requires men and women of vision who can see this as an opportunity to join the community of nations.We have a serious shortage of those.For sometime I thought Blair may be such a person.But his imperialist genes working on overdrive by his proximity to Bush, he looks like a lost cause.