America's fading virtues

Leave it to Friedman to say it like it is: We're in big trouble if we don't start learning from Lance.

Talk to U.S. business executives and they'll often comment on how many of China's leaders are engineers, people who can talk to you about numbers, long-term problem-solving and the national interest - not a bunch of lawyers looking for a sound bite to get through the evening news. America's most serious deficit today is a deficit of such leaders in politics and business.

Long-term problem-solving... like who ever does that anymore?