US confronts its reputation abroad
Published: 24 April, 2010, 00:09
Edited: 19 June, 2010, 04:09
Many people believed that the election of Barack Obama meant a new US foreign policy. As the wars drag on, however, has anything really changed?
Yeah, Obama is a liar and a miserable failure. America really crapped the bed on that one.










Nobody respects a foreign constable. Not when it was Britain, not when it is the US. It involves horrible exchanges that while in some cases are to the greater benefit of the world, are more clear in their negative than their positive consequences owing to what they enable being more conspicuous than that which they prevent. If the US wasn't around, then someone else would be mucking in the ME because that area is inherently rife with religious extremism that would be let loose like a pandora without strong authorities to suppress it. Whose fault is that? And here we come to the complicated part of the problem. Obviously Israel, colonialism, and the Cold War made things worse than they had to be, but religion has been out of control in that region for a 1000 years, and the region long ago ceded its preeminence as a cultural hearth to the extremities of Eurasia. The real question is, how can interference be made to improve rather than perpetuate the vector of the region so that someday it can take care of itself without heavy handed interference from abroad?