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To: Moominoid who wrote (35167)	5/27/2008 5:29:18 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217944

just perused, A New Form Of Isolationism: In fact, this new form is isolationism in reverse. It is the rest of the world acting in many way to isolate the US by the simple political means of walking away from it and making their own future agreements with each other without even inviting the US as observers. Representatives from 60 - repeat SIXTY - nations meet in Lima Peru. The US was not there! The Chancellor of Germany was there, as were Chinese and Russian delegations. Everyone wore smiles from ear to ear. Heads of State and Heads of Government from Europe were there in numbers too many to mention. The Heads of State or of Government from all of the Latin American nations were there. The US was not there! In fact, the 60-nation Lima Summit got barely a mention in the US media. But the proverbial “dime” has now at least dropped halfway in Washington. A few members of Congress woke up from their ongoing fund raising to mutter about - wait for it - “Who lost Latin America”?! Then they too subsided into silence. Trade between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean totalled about 160 Billion Euros last year, the European Commission has said on its website. After the Lima Declaration, it is bound to expand even farther and faster. Straight ahead lies a Latin American-European Union and a free trade pact – something the US has not managed to achieve. Europe and China are taking Latin America away and the US seems not even to be watching while this happens, distracted by its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Latin America, of course, would like nothing better than to get out from under the shadow of the US. But geopolitically the end result will be that within a few years, real US influence will end at the Panama Canal and at the northern coastline of South America. That is real isolation for the USA. Napoleon’s second dictum was very simple. He said this: “Never interrupt your opponent in the middle of executing a mistake. You might cause him to change his mind”. The rest of the world has been following Napoleon’s dictum for the past five years. These have been the years since President Bush decided to invade and then occupy Iraq. The world simply waited for exhaustion to set in. Once that was out in the open and the US had deprived itself of the means with which to militarily intervene in other parts of the world, the rest of the world moved. The US could do nothing even politically to stop the rest of the world from doing so. The Japan/China Summit followed. That Summit was quickly followed by the summits mentioned in this issue. These many summits will be given real effect on the ground over the months ahead as the US becomes increasingly internally distracted by its political party conventions and its presidential campaign. By the time the US looks around again in early January 2009, the world will be a very different place. The US will be isolated politically, strategically, economically and monetarily in its own geographic corner of the world as the biggest power - in North America. The sole “wild card” in all this is will be played if the US attacks Iran in a fit of insanity and starts a wider war. The US military enterprise in the Middle East is over. The US can’t win, it can only retreat.