A great improvement. Arnold helped in ways that Cohen couldn't to provide a context for your interpretation of the current context.

There are some places where I think you've done the easy thing by adopting my point in more or less my own words, where the goal I had in mind was to offer another point of departure, so you could climb to a new idea using the rung I fit in the ladder frame.

Your conclusion is still too tentative. You take up my European comparisons, which are part of the global political situation, but you don't take a close enough look at the US politics to ask where the other side of the debate will go. The President's decisions in the early part of this campaign show some very important calculations that you would also want to take into account.