Friday, March 7, 2014

How to save the US - By Simon Kuper


Illustration by Luis Grañena of Americans looking at US flag
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/2b9a41a0-a3fc-11e3-88b0-00144feab7de.html#axzz2vJQUAuub

In two recent columns I explained how to save France and the UKNow that’s done, it’s time to save America. The solution is obvious. The US needs to model itself on its most sanctified institution: the military. I speak from experience. In 2007 and 2008 I spent time on a US military base in a southern state, giving seminars to officers. Being a typical pinko anti-war European, I’d expected to hate the place. Instead I found it idyllic, intellectual and safe. Pottering about the base, I saw several things that the US could learn from its military.