On Feb 19, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote:
> Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "the rest of the planet is no longer paying attention" (to the
> right of the US to tell the world what to do)
>
> Yeah, Putin was going to stand up to the US on Kosovo, but it
> seems that he's backed down. Gabriel Kolko predicted in 2004 that
> after another Bush term Europe would start to move toward a more
> natural geo-political alliance with Russia, but that hasn't
> happened either.
Half the point of a Dem presidency will be to rebuild the U.S.'s international image and repair the damage that George W did to the empire. It may not work, but it's way premature to pronounce the Pax Americana (or Pox, if you prefer) dead.
Doug