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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2014)6/18/2001 8:45:31 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 23908
 
'It is an unparallelled opportunity not given to any other single nation in history because no other single nation, whether Rome or Tang China, had this opportunity of a total global command...to spread ideas and to shape the kind of outcomes which can lead to more peace, more stability, more prosperity,' he said.

The reason for the US' success, he said, is that it allowed a whole host of citizens to experiment and innovate, do-it-youself style, hence turning out entrepreneurs like Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Dell computer chairman Michael Dell, who 'came out of nowhere'.

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