Iraq Study Group
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- TheBlueOne0
I think the window/political capital for the US being able to do what it wants without serious international pressure coming to bear is just about up. You're about to see a return to the "great powers" era and you;re going to see some funky allies joining up to counterbalance the US power. We already lost alot of our soft power (thanks George), our military options are shot at the moment...the fact that we have the that huge ass debt out there helps, as everyone's financial health is dependent on us and they have to deal with dollars as currency of international trade (for the time being)...but China is just bidding it's time...tick tick tick...it's been my contention from day one that Bush has screwed up far, far larger than is even visible right now, Iraq is a mere pimple on the ass of general fuckupidtry that he will be seen historically as being the center of...
All that said, the sooner the US goes back to being a regional power and not a world dominating one, the sooner we get our democracy back and not this half baked psuedo-oligarchy of corporate interests..