December 01, 2008 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. An Idaho Reader Says Maybe The West Isn’t So Dead After AllFrom: Steven Keely (e-mail
him) Re: Today’s Letter: A Reader In India Says The West Is Dead Exactly three years ago, letter
writer Adnan Khan had this to say about “The old whites will sit on the fence
and say, ‘I remember when whites ruled,’ and
the
Chinese and Indian men will laugh and ask, ‘When was
this?’ “Well don’t worry.
You had your time. I am I writing this from my
mansion in “I got a job from some
American who was incredibly ignorant and miserably
inadequate at accounting. “I have no respect for
Americans anymore. What was once a great culture built
on learning and decency has nothing but a bunch of
ignorant immoral morons. Such is your fate.” It seemed his gloating was
overdone. Yet his premise, at the time, appeared true
though not to the point of game-set-match Khan felt to
be fact. Things look different today. Even before the Mumbai terror attacks,
I wondered how one could invest confidently in the BRIC
economies (Brazil,
Russia,
India,
China.) What hedges are there against the
increasingly large risks of instability in those
countries? [Mumbai
Attack Undermines India’s Political, Economic
Confidence, by Bibhudatta Pradhan and James
Rupert, Bloomberg.Com, The history of "Chaostan"
serves us potent warnings: more dangers lie ahead when
combined with worldwide economic turmoil for at least
the next decade.
Keely splits his time between |
