while with Bush et al, there is no limit on the power, none, no one else has any whatsoever
Well, there's Laura. 0:
Seriously, go grab the latest issue of Foreign Affairs and study the article by Joseph Nye, who likens the power analysis to 3 dimensional chess. On the top board is the military arena, in which the US is the hyperpower. The middle board is the economic one, in which the US is big but not utterly predominant. The third board consists of transnational issues which is essentially chaotic.
In order not have limits, the US needs to be the predominant on all of the three boards; it does so only in one. The talk of empire, like the talk about Twain's demise, is therefore highly exaggerated....not to minimize the fact that our military toys make a lot of noise.
Then there's the soft power wielded by lots of folks, but which we are presently intent on squandering and losing.
look what is happening to your civil liberties, really carranza you are right down here on serf level with the Rest of Us
No way, the only infringement on my civil liberties I've noticed is having to take off my shoes when I go through airport security. Civil liberties is guarded jealously here--witness the gay rights decision by what a lot of people will tell you is a conservative Supreme Court. |
