We
Americans sometimes forget that, even after the 2008 financial
meltdown, we are still 10 times more powerful than any other nation.
The world should be grateful for the hegemonic nature of America. Ten times more powerful in the size and power and reach of our military than any other nation. That is an order of magnitude greater than anyone else.
I say the world should be grateful for one reason: America is generally incompetent. The global klutz.
(1) We have a completely dysfunctional intelligence system despite putting hundreds of billions into satellites and other technology. Most intel agencies still don't talk to each other or to other competent intel agencies in the world.
How do I know this? Because the most effective intel available in America is ex-pats, visitors and immigrants and nobody ever collects information from them. Many immigrants can pick up a phone and answer any intelligence question by talking to one of their friends.
(2) Our State
Department is hopelessly incompetent. The State Department was opposed
to the creation of Israel, an act that required vision, and State remains 60 years later an enemy of Israel, our only solid ally in
the world. State always supports the UN despite the fact that it has long been the main arm of the 4th Reich. The State Department fought the three greatest positive global realignments in world
history (a) the Nixon-Kissinger China breakthrough (b) the
Reagan-Bush defeat of the Soviet Union and (c) Bush's
military success in Iraq, nearly wiped out by incompetent State Department men on the job.
(3) Our military never misses an opportunity to fail. The DOD is still trying to fight the Soviet Cold War, did a miserable job in follow-up for Iraq in both wars and, with a budget 200 times greater than the Israel Defense Force, has rarely been able to do one fourth what the IDFdoes. Again an order of magnitude difference.
Summary: With America as the global hegemon, the only hazard is that the incompetent giant may step on something by accident.
"...the feet of the world, better mind where you tread"...lines from a song by Al Stewart...
May I draw this post from British blogger Cranmer to your attention ?
"David Cameron: my belief in Israel is ‘very deep and inside of me’ and ‘indestructible’"
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/
It seems very likely that David Cameron will become the next Prime Minister of a government with a pro-Israel, anti-Brussels/Europe mandate. Very likely too, that he will seek to emulate Thatcher's pro-USA approach. A glimmer of a new dawn perhaps ?
Posted by: Ayrdale | Jul 06, 2009 at 03:59 PM