What should America's role in world politics be in the future? (1 Viewer)

[liberateamerica]

I believe that America should continue to be a major player in world politics, and I do think that we should still be prepared to use military action if necessary, and if diplomacy fails. However, I question the reason that we need to deploy our military around the world, including in some places that haven't needed it since the end of the Cold War. I also believe that we should cease giving aid to countries that maintain anti-American rhetoric or that do not back America in international politics. I also think that Halliburton and other dubious contracting companies should keep their noses out of future wars and/or occupations.

 

[Topsez]

I believe that America should continue to be a major player in world politics, and I do think that we should still be prepared to use military action if necessary, and if diplomacy fails. However, I question the reason that we need to deploy our military around the world, including in some places that haven't needed it since the end of the Cold War. I also believe that we should cease giving aid to countries that maintain anti-American rhetoric or that do not back America in international politics. I also think that Halliburton and other dubious contracting companies should keep their noses out of future wars and/or occupations.

In my opinion America has lost what makes it great... the feeling of superiority that convinced our past leaders to dominate other people's because we were simply better and had a better idea of liberty and a higher god than they do. I know that sounds harsh in this PC world but in the PC world many love to blame America... harming the American Indians, Mexicans and pushing our values on other governments like Cuba and USSR... It simply isn't there anymore... we are impatient as a people and simply want all of the freedoms the warriors before us have secured without doing anything to maintain them.

In the new flat world the countries with the most natural resources and better education will float to the top of the commode and if China continues we will float together at the top as powers overlooking the remaining world.

In absence of citizen support for rejecting other ideas as being lesser than ours we sink in the toilet... we are a country of half heavy turds now and if we don't rediscover what America is about we will be flushed like the lesser beings that those who hate America have discovered us to be. We either acknowledge we have a superior culture or get flushed. Sorry for the poor analogy...

 

[Hatuey]

In my opinion America has lost what makes it great... the feeling of superiority that convinced our past leaders to dominate other people's because we were simply better and had a better idea of liberty and a higher god than they do.

You mean like colonialism? the same thing we kicked Britains *** for?

In absence of citizen support for rejecting other ideas as being lesser than ours we sink in the toilet... we are a country of half heavy turds now and if we don't rediscover what America is about we will be flushed like the lesser beings that those who hate America have discovered us to be. We either acknowledge we have a superior culture or get flushed. Sorry for the poor analogy...

So America is about...pushing our god on top of others(like what Bin Laden is trying to do), pushing our values on top of others(like what Bin Laden is trying to do), and making others know that we are a superior culture(like what Bin Laden is trying to do).

I think America should realize it can't run the world and force everybody else to think the way we do. I think we should stop helping out the world and then wait a few months. When people realize it doesnt work with violence we'll come in and then provide solutions that aren't biased by our own way of life (that dont include neo-colonialism and companies getting rich off the poor). If they dont like it they can get back to the way they were and rot in the cesspool they've created.

 

[Doremus Jessup]

China will surpass the US, maybe 20 years from now. Long Cycle Theory.

 

[Kandahar]

China will surpass the US, maybe 20 years from now. Long Cycle Theory.

Meh, it's going to take a lot longer than 20 years, if it happens at all.

I think America will still be the most powerful country into the forseeable future, but China, India, and Japan will become very strong as well and achieve "superpower" status.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. A multipolar world promotes cooperation.

 

[Topsez]

Meh, it's going to take a lot longer than 20 years, if it happens at all.

I think America will still be the most powerful country into the forseeable future, but China, India, and Japan will become very strong as well and achieve "superpower" status.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. A multipolar world promotes cooperation.

I was stationed in South Korea in 1969 and the only people who owned private autos were the mayor and police chief... everyone rode bicycles, took taxis, busses or trains... Korea has absolutely no natural resourses other than its people and barely produces enough food to feed them yet look where they are in the world market after 37 years... China on the other hand has many natural resources along with ample food supplies and is growing at a factor of X 10 of Korea... with the new hydro electric plant on line they will be a major power in the next decade... When the standard of living goes up in China the junk they sell us for pennies on the dollar will cost dollar on the dollar to feed their new found greed... there will be a race for cheap labor and I hope America doesn't win that race.

 

[Andy]

China needs at least 40 years to reach a comperable economic level. Same with their technology.