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November 18, 2005

Americans "less enchanted" as Sole Superpower Says New Poll

Which was quite a blow for the poll’s sponsors the New York based Council on Foreign relations. The US role defending the turf of the multinational corporations and the oil companies as well as being the Global Policeman of the world is getting tiresome and expensive.

"I believe", said USMC Major General Smedley Butler in 1933, "in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."

Who knows being an isolationist may again be hip and cool in American culture soon.

Sweden and Switzerland are both long standing neutralists in foreign affairs have not been in a war in nearly three hundred years, so don’t write me and say "Ali that policy is unworkable", OK? As that wise and much ballyhooed Founding Father Ben Franklin noted, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Whether this advice is applicable in all circumstances or not I dunno. This policy used to be fashionable albeit with negative political consequences sometimes. However I for one am willing to give his advice a chance and see, eh?

Posted by Ali Massoud at November 18, 2005 09:49 AM

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One small comment on your reference to Sweden: unfortunately we WEREN'T neutral during WW2. We let the Nazis, in fear of being invaded - we did not have Switzerland's defensive mountain range or hold of the economy - travel across our country to get supplies and troops into Norway or something like that. I actually learnt that in school which I feel is a good sign. (In Japan I hear the history books leave out the massacre of Chinese civilians by the Japanese invading army) Otherwise, of course, I agree with you. The US goverment is much too expansionistic for its own good, besides having a "big brother" complex of many layers. And for being "the Land of Opportunity" I feel it's much too conservative; Sweden's right-wing politicians have more in common with America's left-wing Democrats than with their Republicans. I feel I'm beginning to ramble so I'll sign off now.

Posted by: Swedish Leprechaun [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 26, 2005 09:32 PM

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