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Yet, as a Mandarin-speaking Chinese-American, I am made to feel about not doing business in China they way Ken Griffey Jr. might have felt if he had never gone into baseball: like someone who squandered an inheritance, who failed to capitalize on a rare alignment of circumstance and skill.
He crippled Gore's chances of defeating Bush--who as a Republican is destined to lead America into its next recession or depression, as the GOP always does--and he squandered two years of economic expansion during which really great programs might have been enacted while we had the cash lying around.
Thompson has more than just squandered his talent (what prodigy doesn't?)
"It is we who have squandered the public trust, we who have time and again placed our personal or partisan interest before the national interest, earning the public's contempt with our poll-driven policies, our phony posturing, the lies we call spin.
In Le Monde, an article by publisher Jean-Marie Colombani said the United States had squandered its "immense prestige and capacity for action" in the Middle East and would not recover it "until such time as it forces the hand of Benjamin Netanyahu."