Op-Ed Columnist - Perverse Cosmic Myopia - NYTimes.com.
"As a tiger sinks its teeth into the world’s neck, we focus on the dust bunnies under the bed...[Obama is trying to tackle the four most intransigent policy problems of our times and cannot address the immediate economic problem and the furor over the AIG bonuses]...risk[s] destroying the entire bank-rescue plan"
"[All this ]is not the most idiotic of the distractions...[A] core lesson of the Great Depression is that a global crisis calls for a global response...But the G-20 process is heading toward global impotence because the Europeans are dismissing this approach...The world is in flames and they want directorates and multilateral symposia...Many people used to wonder how the world’s leaders could be so myopic at various points in history — like during the Versailles Treaty or the turmoil of the 1930s. We don’t have to wonder any more. We get to watch the cosmic myopia replay itself in our own times."
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