Sorry, did it again.  In html, the link shouldn't break.

 

Nat

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nat Hager III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, 2008 May 05 17:35
To: metric mailing ([email protected])
Subject: 'Newsweek' Editor Declares Era of 'American Exceptionalism is Over'

 

FWIW, Fareed Zakaria being interviewed on the Today show. 

 

The commentary that follows is pretty much what you'd expect.

 

<sigh>

 

Nat

 

>>> ZAKARIA: We have to adjust. First of all, it's a much more competitive
world. We have to be benchmarking. We have to be asking ourselves, what's
going on? Give you simple example. Meredith there are three countries in the
world that have not adopted the metric system: Myanmar, Liberia, and the
United States. So we look around the world and "We say, that's okay. Those
standards are for you. We're special, we're different." And what I'm saying
is that era of kind of "American exceptionalism" is over. 

 

VIEIRA: A real wake-up call. Fareed Zakaria, thank you very much. 

 

>>> 

 

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/05/05/newsweek-editor-dec
lares-era-american-exceptionalism-over

 

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