Is american hegamony over global affairs destabilizing?

Question

hegemony means that its the powerfullest nation. not that america is nazi germany.

Answer 1

hegemony - leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation
(I had to look that up, thought others may find the definition useful too.)

In my uninformed opinion, yes. Bush's attack on Iraq and continuing failure to bring the country peace has shown the United States in a very poor light. Particularly as a country that suffers from hubris.

Answer 2

Hegemony means domination, and - yes - the United States' domination over global affairs is destabilizing. We have become the newest "evil empire" and other nations are beginning to sense that their only defense against the madman Bush is to develop their own nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
So everytime our cowboy President decides to bully some other nation, he simply adds fuel to the flames.
Bush has destroyed America's reputation as a world leader and global peacekeeper. We are now viewed as warriors, out to rule the world, all for our own selfish interests.
The U.S.A. represents about 5% of the global population, yet we squander more than 50% of the world's resources. We illegally and unconstitutionally invade other sovereign nations (like Iraq) only because the Bush family has a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein and Dick Cheney wants all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands.
PREDICTION: The Bush handlers will come up with a plausible excuse to attack Iran (one that conservative ditto heads will 'buy') before the spring of 2007. Why? For the same reason we invaded Iraq: rich fields of easily-accessible OIL...and we want it all!
Meanwhile, we play a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with China, our biggest creditor. If China ever revokes our credit line and starts to 'foreclose", it will simply come over here and TAKE whatever it wants: oil, real estate, military hardware, coal, wood, mineral deposits, weapons of mass destruction, banks, and even our women (if there's a lucrative sex-slave trade and a demand for Western women). At the same time, the United States recognizes that the Chinese are buying more new cars per capita than Americans, and that means China's demand for OIL will grow greater in the coming years. U.S. manufacturers want a piece of that new-car market, so the Bush administration has serious juggling act on its hands. The Bush family dynasty has strong ties to China (as well as Saudi Arabia); add to that volatile mix the Bush ties to the binLaden family (who invested $2.5 million in the Carlyle Group right after George H.W. Bush left office and joined that consulting firm).
Add it all up, and you have a capricious set of circumstances to which the Bush dynasty is beholden.
PREDICTION: If it appears that a Democratic landslide is inevitable in 2008, the nameless, faceless sub-humans who control George W. Bush will fabricate one more "terrorist attack" on U.S. soil (but this time it will be in the Midwest, perhaps Chicago or St. Louis). Then they'll order the coward Bush to declare martial law, claiming that a change in administrations would not be in the best interests of national security. That will give Republicans time to groom Jeb Bush for a Presidential race, continuing the Bush dynasty and bringing us that much closer to being under China's rule.
Think I'm crazy???
Then I suggest you print this out and save it for a few years, just to see how close to being right I am! -RKO-

Answer 3

The American Hegemony? There is one? Wow! Judging from that statement, Americans are some evil people out to rule the world, like the Nazis, or the ComIntern.

Answer 4

Yeah, look at Latin America and palestine.