The biggest show in politics is over, the billions are spent, little has changed. Time to refocus. Let’s reframe our attention to all the other equally and more important developments worldwide. That’s exactly what this article from Foreign Policy is about. While the article is clearly directed at American readers, let’s not fool ourselves: We, too, have been overly focused on the US of A over the past few months.

From Weekly Filet #91, in November 2012.