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I have read through the threads comparing the U.S. to the Romans and the Greeks (although not all of it yet) and kept thinking about an artical in Time Magazine on the same subject. For anyone who hasn't I'll read off some of it.
I'm sure Doug H. and a few of the others has read this because alot of you all seem to be well informed.
We all know what we saw and felt on 9-11-01 and the after affect since,"..the rest of the world saw something different. They saw a country that was hit by terrorism, as some of them had been, but that was able to respond on a scale that was almost unimaginable. Suddenly terrorism was the worlds' cheif priority, and every country had to reorient its foreign policy accordingly.
A few months later the U.S. toppled a regime 6,000 miles away- almost entirely from the air, in Afghanistan, a country where the Brittish and Soviet empires were bogged down at the peak of their power. Americas position today is unprecedented. 100yrs. ago, Britton was a Superpower, ruling a quarter of the globes' population but was only the worlds' third richest country and only one among many strong military powers.
This year America will spend as much on defence as all 191 countries combined.
Americas' dominance is not simply military. The U.S. economy is as large as the next three- Japan, Germany, and Britain combined.The U.S. is more dynamic economiclly, more youthful demographically, and more flexible culturally than any other part of the world.
Supprising is that the world has not ganged up on America already. Countries with immense military and economic might, arouse fear and suspicion, and soon others coalesce against them. It happened to the Hapsburg Empire in the 17th century, France in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Germany twice in the early 20th century, and the Soviet Union in the latter 20th century."
I'm going to shorten this up better.
"Americans think they are different because we never sought to occupy others and through the years that had been a liberating force."
Basically, to wrap this part up, is that America bucked international historic trend be
cause of our diplomcy and the money we spent on other countries. We educated,fed, and brought alot of the world to economic fullfilment.
Of cource this served our interests as well. It produced a pro-American world that was secure and rich.
This artical goes on to say that Bush turned his back on the world, spit on the U.N. and didn't get elected but forced his way into office.
I should say that this is what the world is thinking, not what the writer is thinking. Poor wording on my part.
Does anyone think that our kids or grandkids will see a world vs. the U.S. kind of war?
I'm sure Doug H. and a few of the others has read this because alot of you all seem to be well informed.
We all know what we saw and felt on 9-11-01 and the after affect since,"..the rest of the world saw something different. They saw a country that was hit by terrorism, as some of them had been, but that was able to respond on a scale that was almost unimaginable. Suddenly terrorism was the worlds' cheif priority, and every country had to reorient its foreign policy accordingly.
A few months later the U.S. toppled a regime 6,000 miles away- almost entirely from the air, in Afghanistan, a country where the Brittish and Soviet empires were bogged down at the peak of their power. Americas position today is unprecedented. 100yrs. ago, Britton was a Superpower, ruling a quarter of the globes' population but was only the worlds' third richest country and only one among many strong military powers.
This year America will spend as much on defence as all 191 countries combined.
Americas' dominance is not simply military. The U.S. economy is as large as the next three- Japan, Germany, and Britain combined.The U.S. is more dynamic economiclly, more youthful demographically, and more flexible culturally than any other part of the world.
Supprising is that the world has not ganged up on America already. Countries with immense military and economic might, arouse fear and suspicion, and soon others coalesce against them. It happened to the Hapsburg Empire in the 17th century, France in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Germany twice in the early 20th century, and the Soviet Union in the latter 20th century."
I'm going to shorten this up better.
"Americans think they are different because we never sought to occupy others and through the years that had been a liberating force."
Basically, to wrap this part up, is that America bucked international historic trend be
cause of our diplomcy and the money we spent on other countries. We educated,fed, and brought alot of the world to economic fullfilment.
Of cource this served our interests as well. It produced a pro-American world that was secure and rich.
This artical goes on to say that Bush turned his back on the world, spit on the U.N. and didn't get elected but forced his way into office.
I should say that this is what the world is thinking, not what the writer is thinking. Poor wording on my part.
Does anyone think that our kids or grandkids will see a world vs. the U.S. kind of war?
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