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Originally posted by David - PG
The reality is the US no longer lead the free world. The US is on its own, nobody is following.
All of Europe is grateful to the US for
a) liberating it from Nazi Germany
b) protecting & eventually freeing it from communist hands
The US led the free world for decades throughout the cold war, the whole free world followed. Now... Bush & his clique of amateurish friends managed to isolate the US. Good luck guys you're alone doing what you're doing and you will need all the luck in the world.
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This is very true.
The United States should pull of Iraq now. The United States should not be concerned about either Korea or Iran. There is no need for the US to be concerned about Hong Kong, or the crap with Pakistan and India.
So we pull out. And here's what happens....
- South Korea invades North Korea after nearly fiftey years of fighting over who's right and who's wrong.
- Iran goes nuclear, and Isreal takes them out. Iran launches a nuke into Isreal and Isreal fires back. Glass parking lots spring up all over the middle east - and the world's oil supply is cut off.
- India and Pakistan, tired of fighting over Kashmir, decide that lobbing nukes at each other is perfectly acceptable. Dell computers looses all of it's customer support staff in the first wave of attacks.
- China decides to invade Hong Kong and restore it to the mainland there.
By this time WWIII has broken out. I'm going way out on a limb here.... But then Japan - having all of it's oil cut off because of what's going on in the middle east - attacks what's left of Russia, or perhaps invades Alaska. Germany decides to rearm itself, and the French who haven't showered since WWII start getting jumpy to they launch a pre-emptive strike at Germany.... England suffers from the nuclear fallout and starts basting away at France and Germany. All Europe is now at war, as is the middle east and Asia.
Meanwhile the US is gonna mind it's fucking business while the the governments of fifteen differnt countries fail because they are no longer being supported by the United States.
I'm not always proud of what the US does. But who else is gonna step up to the plate? The British Empire is gone, France is afraid of it's own shadow, Germany doesn't want to start shit, and Russia is just down and out right now.