Inviting America's decline

Here's an excellent read, courtesy of The New York Times' Thomas Friedman, about the hard choices facing the President in this, his de facto "third term." Quoting author David Rothkopf, Mr. Friedman notes:

"If President Bush doesn't rise to this challenge, our children and grandchildren will look at the burden he has placed on their shoulders and see this moment as the hinge between the American Century and the Chinese Century. George W. Bush may well be seen as the president who, by refusing to address these urgent questions when they needed to be addressed, invited America's decline."

(NOTE: For those of you who still admirably refuse to submit to the highway robbery of the NYT's "Times Select", I've reprinted Mr. Friedman's article in the comments section. Click "add your opinion" below to access the full editorial.)