U.S. Intelligence Report on Global Trends 2025 could have been written over a decade ago.
Thematically, most of the trends in the report just released by the US National Intelligence Council could have been easily identified a decade ago. In fact, people have been studying these trends for years. So the Bush administration didn't catch on until now? After eight years of governing with gross negligence and willful blindness? Is this a demonstration of great foresight or 20/20 hindsight?
It seems like a last minute purge of "don't say we didn't warn you". What we can say is they didn't prepare us for the future.
The Bush administration shackled this country to the 20th century. Every policy, foreign and domestic, was embedded with unprecedented arrogance. As a result, American ingenuity was stifled and big oil companies
laughed all the way to what used to be the U.S. banking system.
