Outlook Not So Good: “… it was a curious
convergence of events that saw the National
Intelligence Council issue its soothsaying report
on America’s role in the New World Order, Global
Trends 2015, just as a president-elect who has
never traveled across the Atlantic set about
appointing a cabinet disinclined to cast the
world’s only superpower as a leader of new global
consensus…

At such moments, you can sense the growing
desperation in the precincts of high spookery:
There just has to be an enemy out there,
mastering the conventions of ‘nonmateriel’
combat subterfuge. Then again, this particular
judgment call may well prove inadvertently
prophetic, after all: There probably is every
reason in the world to think that a Bush-led
America, however extravagantly armed, runs a
much greater risk of being simply outwitted.” Feed