http://opinionist.com/2007/07/26/sunset-for-us-global-dominance-hello-multi-polar-world/ a blog for those hard to find news items, awkward subjects and unwanted conversations. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://opinionist.com/2007/07/26/sunset-for-us-global-dominance-hello-multi-polar-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6958 Ryan Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:49 +0000 http://opinionist.com/2007/07/26/sunset-for-us-global-dominance-hello-multi-polar-world/#comment-6958 As a Briton, I certainly agree that a government's first obligation must be to the welfare and prosperity of its own subject people. America is fortunate in being a self-sustainable nation in its natural resources, consumer goods and financial infrastructure. The mounting flames of hatred for the US, from radical Islam, developing China and Russia, and (frankly still envious) Western Europe will only be further fanned by America's ill advised 'global policing', and attention is being turned away from the increasingly desperate domestic state of the US. In the bigger picture, America can simply do no right at this point (I am not sneering, might I add). Focus on environment, healthcare and the fractured psyche of the US will do more to ensure longterm prosperity for your nation. And for heaven's sake, put the fiddly, childish, impossible-to-please-everyone issue of 'identity politics' on the furthest backburner where it belongs. As unsure as I am of Obama (I speak as a man of mixed race), the Clinton Diva will only turn American politics into a showboat of whiny self-regard, aided by her socialite liberal celebrity cronies. And in the face of world population pressure, dwindling resources and the fracture of family and society that seems to go hand in hand with industrialisation, her petty list of concerns will only ensure that your country is taken less seriously by other nations. As a Briton, I certainly agree that a government’s first obligation must be to the welfare and prosperity of its own subject people. America is fortunate in being a self-sustainable nation in its natural resources, consumer goods and financial infrastructure. The mounting flames of hatred for the US, from radical Islam, developing China and Russia, and (frankly still envious) Western Europe will only be further fanned by America’s ill advised ‘global policing’, and attention is being turned away from the increasingly desperate domestic state of the US. In the bigger picture, America can simply do no right at this point (I am not sneering, might I add). Focus on environment, healthcare and the fractured psyche of the US will do more to ensure longterm prosperity for your nation. And for heaven’s sake, put the fiddly, childish, impossible-to-please-everyone issue of ‘identity politics’ on the furthest backburner where it belongs. As unsure as I am of Obama (I speak as a man of mixed race), the Clinton Diva will only turn American politics into a showboat of whiny self-regard, aided by her socialite liberal celebrity cronies. And in the face of world population pressure, dwindling resources and the fracture of family and society that seems to go hand in hand with industrialisation, her petty list of concerns will only ensure that your country is taken less seriously by other nations.

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