is the USA losings its power?

Question

Ever since World War II, the United States has used its military and economic superiority to promote a stable world order that has, on the whole, kept the peace and spread prosperity. But the United States increasingly lacks both the power and the will to play this role. It isn’t just Iraq, though Iraq has been profoundly destabilizing and demoralizing. Many other factors erode U.S. power: China’s rise; probable nuclear proliferation; shrinking support for open trade; higher spending for Social Security and Medicare that squeezes the military; the weakness of traditional U.S. allies — Europe and Japan.

no longer does other countries listen to them and do what they say like in the cold war era, also soon oil could be traded in euros and not the dollar thats what iraq wanted to do any way.

so what do you think is it losing its edge

Answer 1

Of course US is losing its edge, and US is not getting it back any time soon. Like a few previos posts, I blame it all on Bush. Had Al Gore been the president, the slide would not have been as drastic.

For a long time I refuse to believe Bush is the worst president US ever had, I wanted to leave that to Herbert Hoover, the president who oversaw the beginning of the Great depression, and chose to do nothing as his fellow countrymen suffered beside him. It is all because he believed that the government does not leverage its influence to its people's lives, for good or for bad.

Bush is completely oppostie. He did everything wrong for America:

1. He cut the rich's tax so that I got my $100 tax rebate while lost out on $10,000 federal services that I could use someday.
2. The whole nonsense on axis of evil.
3. Iraq War II (this thing spawned so many other issues, it's not even funny)
4. Social Security privatization crap (if we are allowed to invest with social security funds, what guarrantees do we have when we lost it all because of bad decisions?).
5. Ignoring Geneva convention so that our soliders can also be tortured without regard to the Geneva guidelines in an accordance with Bush's twisted idea of "enemy combatants" Abu Ghraib prison was inevitable. Now, we can't even close Guantanamo Bay detention camp even if we wanted to because no countries are willing to take their citizens back who are now the resident of the camp.
6. Justice Department scandals/Gonzales Fiasco (had Bush not being an idiot in the first place, Gonzales would not have to resign in disgrace, and Justice departmetn lawyers would not have such a low morale right now)

Subset of Iraq War II consequences:
(1) The military forces is spent, period. Lack of morales notwithstanding
(2) Everyone knows about American image abroad with the war.
(3) The war exposes the lack of sufficient support for our soliders and veterans, which are exposed by Walter Reed fiasco.
(4) The military equipments are worn out much faster in war time. We MUST continue the current level of the military spending for the next 10 years, in which I am not even sure will be enough to rebuild the infrastructures. This adds on top of babyboomers retiring and drawing from the social security funds that is still solvent because the babyboomer generation had not started drawing their funds yet.

Seriously, what had he done that would be a good lasting legacy for the future generations? Even Republicans don't consider him as a conservative and they just want him to go back to his texas ranch and never shows his face again. He is definitely not a moderate republican. Other than a moron, what else can he be?

Had Al Gore been the president. He would not even think about Iraq War II. We will not owe China & Japan so much money while still have a budget surplus. Gore also wanted to raise gas price to $3 a gallon by taxes (back in 1992 when he ran for prez)to support renewable energy resources & for all to conserve gas, now that we are paying $3 a gallon without much to show for it. We are also so very far behind in green technology comparing with the rest of the world.
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Other than my absolute disdain for Bush, Gore could've only slowed the decline of US, but not stopped it. With 5% of world population, it's consuming 25% of resources. While china & india, projected to have half of the world's population within a decade, their citizens want to have the same level of consumption of US. There is no way that US could've compete in population and the infrastructure boom that China & India's respective economy are enjoying.


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p.s. Darn it, that was a huge load of, um..., crap. No better word for it.

Answer 2

We are losing some power & things contribute to that;

1) China owns our debt

2) Congress is a laughing stock and passing ridiculous laws, the house is not much better.

3) Clinton cut our military down by tragic numbers

4) The Land of the Seas treaty is on the table AGAIN,
(bad idea) if this passes it melds with the constitution and makes us have no more power that 144 other countries plus it would give the UN the right to tax us. Everyone should be worried if this passes

5) Few care about politics anymore, we have many lousy government vermin who keep getting re-elected (Kennedy, Kerry, Pilosi, Reid, Harkin) and do what they want instead of what they're elected to do. We need to get lobbyist and special interest out of politics before we can make the country strong again. As long as our politicians keep spending money on social programs instead of defense, we are doomed to be a nation of dependents.

It's tough to be the strongest nation in the world when you are giving hand-outs to the people in the nation, both legal and ILLEGAL.

Answer 3

The USA is not losing its power. The other world organizations have shifted their focus on what they can exploit from the more powerful nations.

The "envy nations" who don't get what they want from the U.S., subvert the U.S. efforts to promote democracy worldwide. Including the Islamic nations who promote the spread of Islam, which dislike the westernization/democracy efforts of the U.S.

Its all a matter of disinformation and lies about how evil the U.S. is. You either buy into it or you don't.

Answer 4

no, no no!!!

the bush era has unleashed the corporate military world as was planned!!!

they are gettin all the new toys funded now, plus blank checks for our so called protection and security!!!

we are in no danger, there might be some radical nut individual, or a group of individuals that blows someone up once in a while, but hey you could get struck by lightening also!!!

Answer 5

You get everlasting interest of a soldier and better promotions in devil's militia. long term result is-----you could no longer connect the club of angels. it fairly is obtrusive that your desire/targets/thoughts take shape like a devil once you connect the corrupt forces.

Answer 6

Most certainly not. In fact our power is rising. Just some other powers are rising, too. (The Chinese won't last long, trust me)

Answer 7

The american corporations have plundered America and the world and convinced us of lies.

Answer 8

yes you is right about this things.