For in the race to do business with an increasingly prosperous and opportunity-laden continent, America is lagging behind.
Surveying the length and breadth of the distressed and bankrupt securities arena, Shelby S. Werner, principal of Whippoorwill Associates in White Plains, New York, declares it the most opportunity-laden since 1990.
The word "carnage" was used by our new president to describe what appears as opportunity-laden to anyone not American, not to mention the increasingly popular narrative among elite scholars that says the U.S. economy is no longer creating enough jobs for its men.
Even potential opportunities come laden with problems.
A corn farmer, Hassan Mow, says it would be "a great opportunity if bin Laden came here," responding to the speculation that Mr. Bin Laden might slip into Somalia.
"The propaganda value of this opportunity for bin Laden and his terrorist organization would be immense," the memo notes, "and the psychological impact of such a dramatic and highly personal confrontation between the soon-to-be martyred bin Laden and the United States government might well reverberate throughout the Muslim world for decades to come".
Schroen believes today that this was a lost opportunity to kill Bin Laden before 9/11.
"The field official believes today that this was a lost opportunity to kill bin Laden".
He believes that the project will afford readers the opportunity to understand bin Laden in his own words.
"If we had the opportunity to take Bin Laden alive, if he didn't present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that," Mr. Brennan said.
In Kerry's first comment, made during an interview with a Milwaukee television station, he criticized Bush for missing an opportunity to kill bin Laden at Tora Bora, as he often had during the campaign.
