Stephan:   While we are mired in the Middle East, engaged in our endless wars whose only outcome seems to be to generate social breakdown and hate for America, the Chinese have become the dominant foreign influence throughout Africa. This report gives some sense of what is happening, beginning with the fact that the entire developing world is now developing at a rate previously unseen, much of it with Chinese funding and help. This trend has long term implications that we will live to regret. You can see in these developments how poorly the neocons, Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, understood the great forces in play geopolitically.  Almost everything they did has been shown to be a miscalculation, but we don't seem to be able to talk about that yet. You would never hear this in the current campaign, but 50 years from now if honest history is still taught people will be writing doctoral dissertations by the dozen on this period of historically bad judgment.