Progress, but not here

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire
Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 10:02am, February 17, 2011.

"...There's no way that thinking so old and stale, so out-of-date, can begin to take in or react adventurously to a fast-changing world. Look at Egypt, or China, or Brazil, or India, or Turkey. There, new thinking and new developments are blooming, but you wouldn’t know it in Washington...."