oder so...
z.b der Teil der beschreibt wie es zu Zeiten bevor 9/11 aussah :
Yet our later knowledge of how the world unfolded in ways very
different from those ultra-gloomy assumptions is not just a display of
being wise after the event. After all, what were regarded as the major
tendencies in global affairs before al-Qa'ida struck the Pentagon and
the Twin Towers? Surely they the following: the United States was
unquestionably the global No 1, albeit facing serious financial
imbalances and militarily overstretch abroad; Asia, led above all by
China and India, was rising both economically and militarily; Russia,
under Putin's coldly calculated mix of domestic and external
stratagems, was steadily recovering its place in world affairs; Europe
was getting older and slower but was still a nice place in which to
live; Africa was grappling, with mixed results, with more disasters
than any other broad region of the Earth; and the Middle East, with
exceptions, could not manage the 21st century.