January 6, 2007 at 05:59:10

United States of America Inc.-the fall of a giant

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As Samuel Huntington supports by his reasoning in his book "Clash of Civilizations", the geo-political motives for forming alliances that kept otherwise unlikely nations in cooperation has been replaced by need for alliances based on trust and reliability - we gang up with those we have reasons to believe will share our values.
In the absence of such social capital of perceived credibility and reliability there is just economic and military coercion to achieve objectives. And USA is loosing power of both in relation to other players.
Democrats- sometimes with Republicans- in the US Senate and Congress is going against explicit White house directions and making stapling attempts to kiss and make up with socialist - democratic Latin American governments (10)- even those closely allied to the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who is both part of the Axis of Evil and called Bush the Devil in UN - as well as pay visits to Syrian President11. Hugo Chavez himself received a US olive branch(12), but although not completely rejecting the overture he declared that he would prioritize fostering the ties with nations more important to Venezuela - such as other Latin American nations.
In a near future USA will be neither respected not feared enough to ward off the consequences of having been the worse bully on the block. Sadly, it will be those least guilty - the American people - which will face the Blowback that will topple the naked giant emperor. The masters OF the game never go down when the players IN the game does.

Sources:
1. http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick6.htm
2. http://www.video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8327695139643041382&q=dollar+hegemony
3. http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=4059065
4. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16023.htm
5. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16014.htm
6. http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20061227
7. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1435219
8. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p08s01-wome.html
9. http://santiago.indymedia.org/print.php?id=62885
10. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061229/pl_afp/ecuadoruspolitics_061229134432
11. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200612/POL20061214d.html
12. http://www.trever.org/module-Feeds-view-option-article-artid-816741.html

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