One day Iraq, our post-9/11 trauma and the divisiveness of the Bush years will all be behind us — and America will need, and want, to get its groove back. We will need to find a way to reknit America at home, reconnect America abroad and restore America to its natural place in the global order — as the beacon of progress, hope and inspiration. I have an idea how. It’s called "green"...-New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, writing in yesterday's New York Times Magazine, on how America can regain its international reputation, soiled beyond recognition by the Bush folks, by taking the lead in the development of alternative energies and environmentalism.
How do our kids compete in a flatter world? How do they thrive in a warmer world? How do they survive in a more dangerous world? Those are, in a nutshell, the big questions facing America at the dawn of the 21st century. But these problems are so large in scale that they can only be effectively addressed by an America with 50 green states — not an America divided between red and blue states.
It's a lengthy piece but I highly suggest you take the time to read it. I've said it before and I'll say it again...Friedman would get my vote for president any day.
