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Yankee06
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Did Obama know...
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8/31/2009 5:31:47 PM
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-Words! words! words!
-let me say ,"in other words" --the Brits, the Scots, and the Lybians could care less what this admnistraton thinks! This ladies and gentlemen is another clear example that we are no longer considered a global super power, and apparently, not even a regional super power.
-A global super power, or even a regional super power, is a nation that is able to use its elements of power (military, economic, political, and cultural) to influence other nations to act in keeping with the super power's interests, --or in the very least, not to act against those interests.
-So in this instance, we were not able to "influence" teh Brits not to act against our interests; 1)because, economically we can't provide them oil, -- because we can't (or won't) even provide ourselves with oil, --also economically, we are in debt to teh Chinese for umpteen trillion dollars and thus have little to offer our allies; 2) because militarily, military force does not lend itself to this issue, --but as a backdrop, we are snatching defeat from victory in the mideast, so even our military super power credentials are in question; 3) because politically, we can't run our own country well, as we continue in the recession while Europe is staring to pull out, --so why shold they listento our aadvice; and 4) because culturally, we are no longer thought of as the global engine of industry/science/culture as those mantles begin to shilft to asia.
- Yet, perhaps I read too much into this little international play, --however, when one thinks deeply on it, I believe it should cause us concern.
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