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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (3977)	12/29/2008 10:35:52 AM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Russia is a third world country with nukes.... This country has its problems but they are minor compared to the Russians.....

To: puborectalis who wrote (3977)	12/29/2008 12:45:07 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

got a link for that tripe, smuckus?

To: puborectalis who wrote (3977)	12/29/2008 2:38:57 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 103300

Oh boo hoo! Go whine that garbage to the liberals on SI.

To: puborectalis who wrote (3977)	12/30/2008 11:09:22 AM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

but the financial turmoil, which broke out in Wall Street in September, showed its vulnerability. Showed most of the world's vulnerability. In addition, the country is still deep in trouble with its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Iraq is going very well. Afghanistan is further from being resolved, but its hardly a case where the US is in deep trouble. By contrast, Russia's flexing of strong muscles in the international political arena in the outgoing year indicated a marked recovery of its strength They took on a small weak country and defeated its military. That doesn't show any surprising ability or recovery of its strength. Meanwhile the large drop in oil prices, combined with the negative world reaction to the attack on Georgia, combined with the generally pour international financial situation, has hurt Russia. China has been growing, but notice that when our economy sneezes they catch a cold. They rely on us buying their products. They can be successful when we are successful. The EU is often ineffectual, esp. in military terms. Its a large block of fairly to very rich countries. It united gross production is larger than our GDP, but it isn't one country or a group of countries that are always on the same page, even in economic and trade terms. In military terms it punches below its weight compared to the US, and its reluctant to use the punch it has (which some would argue as a good thing, but it means it has less influence), and also its isn't an enemy or serious rival to the US, so its military strength doesn't hurt us. From a geopolitical perspective, the center of world power is shifting from both sides of the Atlantic to the western Pacific region That much is true, but not as quickly or totally as you seem to imply. The US will still be number one in economic, military, and most political terms, for the foreseeable future.