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The US is already the dominant world power. Policy is to maintain that position of dominance rather than to surrender it to a regional power and end up in another Cold War like state.
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It's a rational point, and I agree. However, irritating and annoying our allied nations will not do. For example, the past policy was to allow Europe, Japan and other nations to use our space satellite technology. This was to prevent other nations from building it themselves. With the current rift between the Bush admin, the Europeans are now planning to build their own sattelite tech(named Galileo, IIRC, google it for more info).
Next thing you know, they'll be another arms race. However, instead of the U.S. versus the USSR, it's more like the U.S. versus the world.
