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Subject: What Have We Done These Seven Years ?
> Subject: Column by T. Friedman in NYT - A Biblical Seven Years
>
> After attending the spectacular closing ceremony at the Beijing Olympics
> and feeling the vibrations from hundreds of Chinese drummers pulsating in
> my own chest, I was tempted to conclude two things: 'Holy mackerel, the
> energy coming out of this country is unrivaled.' And, two: 'We are so
> cooked. Start teaching your kids Mandarin.'
>
> However, I've learned over the years not to over-interpret any two-week
> event. Olympics don't change history. They are mere snapshots — a country
> posing in its Sunday bests for all the world too see. But, as snapshots go,
> the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful — and
> it's one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.
>
> China did not build the magnificent $43 billion infrastructure for these
> games, or put on the unparalleled opening and closing ceremonies, simply by
> the dumb luck of discovering oil. No, it was the culmination of seven years
> of national investment, planning, concentrated state power, national
> mobilization and hard work.
>
> Seven years ... Seven years ... Oh, that's right. China was awarded these
> Olympic Games on July 13, 2001 — just two months before 9/11.
>
> As I sat in my seat at the Bird's Nest, watching thousands of Chinese
> dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at
> the closing ceremony, I couldn't help but reflect on how China and America
> have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics;
> we've been preparing for Al Qaeda. They've been building better stadiums,
> subways, airports, roads and parks. And we've been building better metal
> detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones.
>
> The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia's
> dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling
> infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai's sleek airport and
> taking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train, which uses
> electromagnetic propulsion instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to
> town in a blink.
>
> Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?
>
> Yes, if you drive an hour out of Beijing, you meet the vast dirt-poor third
> world of China. But here's what's new: The rich parts of China, the modern
> parts of Beijing or Shanghai or Dalian, are now more state of the art than
> rich America. The buildings are architecturally more interesting, the
> wireless networks more sophisticated, the roads and trains more efficient
> and nicer. And, I repeat, they did not get all this by discovering oil.
> They got it by digging inside themselves.
>
> I realize the differences: We were attacked on 9/11; they were not. We have
> real enemies; theirs are small and mostly domestic. We had to respond to
> 9/11 at least by eliminating the Al Qaeda base in Afghanistan and investing
> in tighter homeland security. They could avoid foreign entanglements.
> Trying to build democracy in Iraq, though, which I supported, was a war of
> choice and is unlikely to ever produce anything equal to its huge price
> tag.
>
> But the first rule of holes is that when you're in one, stop digging. When
> you see how much modern infrastructure has been built in China since 2001,
> under the banner of the Olympics, and you see how much infrastructure has
> been postponed in America since 2001, under the banner of the war on
> terrorism, it's clear that the next seven years need to be devoted to
> nation-building in America.
>
> Obama is more right than he knows when he proclaims that this is 'our'
> moment, this is 'our' time. But it is our time to get back to work on the
> only home we have, our time for nation-building in America. I never want to
> tell my girls — and I'm sure Obama feels the same about his — that they
> have to go to China to see the future.
ß╤k↕ù└∩a
Now what have we done to advance our country in the past 7 years ?
作者：ceo/cfo 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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