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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: carranza2 who wrote (9595)1/24/2006 8:36:20 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 541685
 
Sovereign states as powerful as the United States, and as dangerous as its critics declare it to be, were historically subject to a check on their power. Other countries banded together to block them. ... Yet no such anti-American alignment has formed or shows any sign of forming today. Widespread complaints about the United States’ international role are met with an absence of concrete, effective measures to challenge, change, or restrict it.
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The explanation for this gap is twofold. First, the charges most frequently leveled at America are false. The United States does not endanger other countries, nor does it invariably act without regard to the interests and wishes of others. Second, far from menacing the rest of the world, the United States plays a uniquely positive global role.

Two other key reasons which this author seems to have, er, overlooked.

1) the US has the world's largest effective nuclear arsenal and expresses willingness (not to mention eagerness from some powerful voices) to use it.

2) the US spends more on its military forces than the next ten largest spenders in the world all added together. IOW there's no coalition that could actually stop it.

Other than those glaring misses and an alarmingly complacent view of US motives especially in the ME, interesting article.
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