On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:39:05 +0200, jacob navia
wrote, in part:

I repeat: no single country is challenging the
U.S. dominance. They have no enemy but a powerful mililtary
industrial complex that is eating them alive.

Russia invaded peaceful, democratic Georgia under a false pretext,
choosing a moment when the President of the U.S. was attending the
Olympics in a hostile foreign country to do so, in order that the
American response could not be well-orchestrated.

Mainland China continues to threaten both India and Taiwan, two
democratic nations.

A terrorist operation, killing almost as many Americans as the attack on
Pearl Harbor, was carried out by al-Qaeda - and that terrorist
organization still exists, having havens in Pakistan, which the U.S. is
being obstructed in dealing with.

Iran is developing a nuclear capability which could be used against
Israel, another Western democracy.

We do _not_ live in a peaceful world where there is simply no threat of
war pretty much forever and ever, where the world's democracies are free
to devote their attentions to mopping up human-rights abuses in places
like the Sudan and Somalia and Burma.

Instead, after a short respite, as the gains were not consolidated,
we're basically back to the Cold War.

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html