Seed Newsvine
Partially in relationship to:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/pakistan.afghan.meeting/
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My Viewpoint
A Citizen’s Viewpoint:
Is Barack Hussein Obama II, making himself un-re-electable, or is the phenomenon of US slipping to second fiddler in the global theater a sign of the beginning of US’ rout of former great Empires--3th Rome? Two viewpoints are at play.
First it might be what many people mentioned in 2008—lack of experience from Mr. Obama II, as well as having a secretary of state who had never served in public office, but anxious to play the big fellows game. Either way, it appears to be a Democratic paradigm. The results are showing as the US is slipping on all phases of the game of being a supper-power.
The Golf spill was a disaster clammed by Mr. Obama II, as his responsibility; unless he was joking about. Either Obama II, had humor fit at the wrong time or he shot his mouth too early when he thought the well was capped; but it kept spilling billions of barrels oil, for which the ecological problems are still decades away from being fixed.
In the latest news, India’s Air Force dumping both the Super Hornet F-18, as well as the F-16 as India’s fighting aircraft. Both rejection bids reduce the US influence and prestige as well as costing the US 100 billion dollars in jobs. It may even have been due to anti US feelings; according to The Times of India.
So the US has four years to fend off China’s dominance. But, will the US get back to where we were.
If China has replaced the US as the global manufacture; if their currency complements it, which is does; and if China is opening ways in Africa and other third world areas, where does it leave the US? The British knew in the 1600s that the power and influence of a country depends on business with other countries. Thus, the British has a great empire, until their building secrets became no longer a secret.
The US capitalists were so eager to have a better year, and show growth that they sold their milking cow, and now they buy from their former buyer. Where is wisdom? Capitalism sold America to the Communist Chinese. So, now the US tries to control the Tiger. Is this a dream, or a truth hard to believe? Selling the milking cow goes back deeper then Obama II; it goes way back to Nixon. Giving our manufacturing to the Chine was simple a casino type deal. Well, we lost. We broke loose the Tiger’s gate; now, the beast is on the loose.
On education we are falling. As a place to raise children, the last I noticed, the US was down as the 19th Best place to raise children. On family relations America has slipped too, socially. According to a Brazilian show, research was made on children of divorced parents, such research would not be popular in the US. For, the research exposed divorced woman as instigators in turning their children against their fathers—a now divorced woman’s problem, but taboo in the US.
So, where is America? Are we becoming a decaying society where morals, influence, prestige and power has slipped by our own negligence? Though generally speaking the USA is still the best place in the world, the question remains--for how long? Starting with the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Portuguese, Spanish, English, and now American Empire, among other great empires, all have the same fate, when decay becomes part of the system, that is the end of prestige.
Every great empire has fallen when they got corrupted. We could learn, but like other empires, arrogance dominates, sin becomes the model and the end comes near unless we choose to correct the path. Of course, only the religious people see the corruption part, the intellectuals call it progress. Are we going to repent like the people of Nineveh or are we going to condemn Jonah.
