Of course these people don't mention that 80 percent of the world's population do not have access to market forces. But that has no chance whatever with the American public, which can't even accept a ten-cent gasoline tax. I'm not terribly optimistic, but the other three responses leave me no hope at all. I'm almost ready to say I take your point. But I think I detect a yearning in America, at least over the past year, for the country to be given some purpose again.
Domestic renewal is clearly the first item on that agenda.
But I think there is a great deal of anxiety about the way our blessed planet is going, too. And given how articulate and persuasive Clinton is, if he would only spend maybe 15 percent of his time addressing these larger and more dangerous global issues, there'd be tremendous benefits. I don't like that solution, and anyway, I can't see the big shock out there. I fear the marines are going to be very busy in the twenty-first century. All letters to the editor are for publication and may be edited for length and clarity.