Le 03/08/11 02:35, John Savard a écrit :
On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:39:05 +0200, jacob
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.


Let's suppose it was so and not that Georgia started it, as many
believe. In no case was the U.S. threatened. Russia invaded
Georgia, not New York. Why should the U.S. be more concerned
than France, Brazil or China?


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


Yes, and so what? China threatens, as you say, India and Taiwan, not
California.

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.


Sure, they exist. And so what? Does the U.S. need to spend 43% of
the world military expenses to counter a group of at most thousand
people?

Al Qaeda isn't even a small country, not even a small province by
population!

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


Yes. And so what? It is threatening the U.S.? No.


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.


Problem is, major WARS were started by the U.S. very often. If the
world is not as peaceful as it should be is because the U.S. starts
wars periodically.

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


In all your examples you assume that the U.S. is the world policeman
that should intervene in any conflict because it has the divine
right to do so.

This is no longer feasible. The U.S. has no money to finance its empire.

Empires DISAPPEAR because the people that build the empire realize that
empires are too costly:

o Costly in terms of humans being sacrificed in endless wars

o Costly in terms of ressources spent in making those wars that reduce
the citizens of the empire to poverty.

The U.S. empire is no different than other empires that came and went
away into oblivion.

Good luck.