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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (21048)	8/10/2007 6:46:51 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 218068

Paul Craig Roberts is dangerous ... too clear thinking, and actually thinks.

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (21048)	8/11/2007 3:40:33 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218068

U.S. is punching above its weight. No denigration of the US. I don't want people here to wrap the issue up in the Stars and Stripes and come back emotionally. It doesn't appear that the leadership has captured that the capacity to influence other countries has been severely curtailed in the last 15 years. 1) No common potential enemy to coordinate a common interest sphere of influence after USSR collapsed 2) No common interest in the G-7, and even it had, G-7 has no longer the critical mass to turn economic affairs to its own benefit. 3) Imperial overstretch (to use the works of Paul Kennedy) is no longer afforded. It is being kept more as a tool of national pride than a requirement to advance the interest of the country. 4) Costs are piling up, both economic and political and only making the country weaker. 5) U.S. strategy to withdraw from Middle East is to sell $20bn of weaponry to Iran-Iraq neighbors. It wills left behind a worse situation that it encountered. 6) Today, had it ended in pizza -as you recall from 2003 Booms Busts and Recoveries thread- a weakened Saddam country in shambles would have a common with Iran the dilapidated infrastructure and seeking the survival of their regimes. 7) Countries like those are better left to fall by get rotten up as the case of the USSR has shown. 8) If you get a good aple put it into a bag of rotten apples, the good apple will rotten too.