AFTER BUSH LEAVES, WILL AMERICA BE LIKED?
By Gigi
I say no…why? For one thing, it’s nonsense to say George Bush caused all the problems that the U.S. is currently facing. Most of the world’s current problems are either already getting better or not our fault. The second thing is this—the U.S. promotes global democratic capitalism and our military might ensures international free commerce in the air, land and sea. And because this is so, it bothers regional dictators and terrorists eager to carve out their own sphere of influence, regardless if it’s Hillary, Barack or Donald Duck sitting in the Oval Office. When the next president takes office in January 2009, he or she will be confronted by a world that either understandably appreciates America or for self-interested reasons will challenge it.
For starters, the next American president will have to deal with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which is proud, jealous and angry for reasons that go well beyond the Bush administration. Russia is flush with petro dollars, still pissed over lost empire and sick and tired of American lectures about human rights over impotent European states. Iran, which repeatedly snubbed the efforts of the Clinton administration to normalize relations, still wants its bomb built and continue to intimidate Israel. And now that Pakistan is nuclear, they’ve said “up yours” to the U.S. and is more friendlier to the jihads. China is peeved at us too, because the U.S. is demanding that they clean up their export trade practices and also grant basic human rights to it’s own citizens. If the U.S. isn’t careful, we will see hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese-held US government bonds sold off. And so it goes.
They’ve all envied the U.S. for centuries; ever since the U.S. gained it’s independence from England and as the youngest nation on the planet, have grown to be the world’s sole formidable super power in a matter of a few hundred years. Everything from the U.S is copied by other countries, from: how American business is conducted, our culture and way of life. So much so, that India, Russia, China, Asia and Latin America are demanding the same good life that Americans take for granted. They think that the U.S. is ‘played’ out, short of energy, long on debt and hogging the world’s best resources. They see no reason to stop pushing just because of our past strength and reputation. They think the future is theirs, and the past was ours. So they will challenge the next president, no matter how nice the next president is.
By Gigi
I say no…why? For one thing, it’s nonsense to say George Bush caused all the problems that the U.S. is currently facing. Most of the world’s current problems are either already getting better or not our fault. The second thing is this—the U.S. promotes global democratic capitalism and our military might ensures international free commerce in the air, land and sea. And because this is so, it bothers regional dictators and terrorists eager to carve out their own sphere of influence, regardless if it’s Hillary, Barack or Donald Duck sitting in the Oval Office. When the next president takes office in January 2009, he or she will be confronted by a world that either understandably appreciates America or for self-interested reasons will challenge it.
For starters, the next American president will have to deal with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which is proud, jealous and angry for reasons that go well beyond the Bush administration. Russia is flush with petro dollars, still pissed over lost empire and sick and tired of American lectures about human rights over impotent European states. Iran, which repeatedly snubbed the efforts of the Clinton administration to normalize relations, still wants its bomb built and continue to intimidate Israel. And now that Pakistan is nuclear, they’ve said “up yours” to the U.S. and is more friendlier to the jihads. China is peeved at us too, because the U.S. is demanding that they clean up their export trade practices and also grant basic human rights to it’s own citizens. If the U.S. isn’t careful, we will see hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese-held US government bonds sold off. And so it goes.
They’ve all envied the U.S. for centuries; ever since the U.S. gained it’s independence from England and as the youngest nation on the planet, have grown to be the world’s sole formidable super power in a matter of a few hundred years. Everything from the U.S is copied by other countries, from: how American business is conducted, our culture and way of life. So much so, that India, Russia, China, Asia and Latin America are demanding the same good life that Americans take for granted. They think that the U.S. is ‘played’ out, short of energy, long on debt and hogging the world’s best resources. They see no reason to stop pushing just because of our past strength and reputation. They think the future is theirs, and the past was ours. So they will challenge the next president, no matter how nice the next president is.
posted by Gigi @ 2:37 PM
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