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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 09:28 PM
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US superpower status is shaken
Source: BBC News

The financial crisis is likely to diminish the status of the United States as the world's only superpower.

On the practical level, the US is already stretched militarily, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and is now stretched financially.

On the philosophical level, it will be harder for it to argue in favour of its free market ideas, if its own markets have collapsed.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7645743.stm
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trthnd4jstc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 09:44 PM
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1. Idiot Bush and Company, decreased the US power by a bunch of Rabid Fascist Ideals. n/t
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 09:51 PM
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2. Under Bush...our Enemies are Emboldened...they view us as WEAK
Iran sez FU

N Korea sez FU

Everyone else sez FU

The GOP have weakened America....their greed made them Dumb us Down....

Now that it succeeded...we don't even know how to vote properly....

Weak Gov'ts attract predator Gov'ts
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 10:01 PM
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3. I wish
the USA could be seen as wise - not weak, not strong - but, one nation undivided, and wise.

I don't want this to have been a pipe dream. I don't want to think in terms of who is our enemy.

You know?

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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 10:10 PM
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4. The Answers lie in the Direction of Truth Reason and Sanity AKA Peace
:toast:
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 10:14 PM
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5. I'll drink to that
and thanks.

:toast:
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Regret My New Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 10:46 PM
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6. Like the Vulcans?
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 11:01 PM
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7. Well...
we could certainly stand to learn some lessons from them, could we not?
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Regret My New Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 11:38 PM
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8. Yeah... like how to build warp drives...
That was sort of my point. Aren't they viewed as the wise ones?
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 07:04 AM
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11. bingo
:donut:
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Dem2theMax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-08 11:57 PM
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9. Shaken?
It was flushed down the toilet eight years ago.
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Kaleko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:07 AM
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10. The consensus is widespread outside the USA: The Empire has fallen.
Check out Der Spiegel, Germany's premier political magazine:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,581502,00.html

The End of Arrogance: America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International News

(Powerful analysis and indictment of BushCo)


http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,1312520,00.jpg


Cover of the German edition: "The Price of Hubris"
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 07:08 AM
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12. more from the BBC
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that the era of US global economic dominance is over.

Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in St Petersburg, Mr Medvedev said the world needed a "more just" financial system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7647729.stm

I agree with needing a "more just financial system".
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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 07:40 AM
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13. Big deal. Life goes on. n/t
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 07:48 AM
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15. well all righty then
I mean, if you really want to invalidate what is for most people a life changing event, then by all means proceed.

By the way, they've found snow on Mars. I remember when they weren't sure what the moon was made of.
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Psephos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 03:53 PM
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17. that's not invalidation, it's an opinion
and whether the US is Number One or Number Nineteen doesn't change anyone's life outside of blog discussion forums
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 07:43 AM
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14. It just goes to show- you aren't really a superpower if you don't provide health care
for everyone.
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tismyself Donating Member (501 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 07:50 AM
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16. well said
I didn't notice anything in the damn bailout about health care at all.
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