Correction: this could become a crash after all | | Guardian Unlimited Business

Correction: this could become a crash after all | | Guardian Unlimited Business: "Paul Kennedy argued in the late 1980s that political power derives from economic power. The first doubts crept in for Britain when winning the Boer War in the face of determined resistance and guerrilla attacks proved a lot more difficult than London had blithely imagined. History may show that South Africa between 1899 and 1902 is a better parallel for America under Bush than is Vietnam."