it quoted benjamin ross to my regular metro rider, my impression standing on line is that people have a gun used it. people have sort of gotten used to it. indeed that sense of resignation , that says that this is just how things are in america today, that america's best days are behind it and china's best days are ahead of it has become the subject of water cooler dinner party and custom conversations all across america today. so do we buy the idea increasingly popular in some circles the burden of the 19th century and america dominated the 20th and china will inevitably raise supreme in the 21st? all we have to do is flawed a washington and take the subway to know where. no, we do not. we have written this book to explain why no american young or old should resign him or herself to that you. the two of us are not pessimists , we are optimists. we are frustrated. we are too frustrated optimists. the title of this opening chapter is if you see something say something. that is the mantra that the department of homeland security plays over and over on loudspeakers and airports are road

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