28 November 2006

Decline and Fall - How not to act like a great power

"AMERICA IS FINISHED as a great power. Not because it no longer possesses the resources, but because it has lost the will. That was brought home to me on both ends of a recent trip through London's Heathrow airport en route to Phoenix."

* No great power permits its citizens to be discriminated against.

* No great power would allow itself to be held hostage to desert kingdoms run by medieval theocracies.

* No great power loses control of its borders.

* No great nation allows itself to become dependent on the goodwill of hostile nations in order to carry out its foreign policy.

* No great power allows others to insult it gratuitously.

* No great nation allows itself to get into hock to a potential enemy.

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/982zjkxs.asp

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