Americans "less enchanted" as Sole Superpower

Which was quite a blow for the poll’s sponsors the New York based Council on Foreign relations. The US role defending the turf of the multinational corporations and the oil companies as well as being the Global Policeman of the world is getting tiresome and expensive.

"I believe", said USMC Major General Smedley Butler in 1933, "in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag."

Who knows being an isolationist may again be hip and cool in American culture soon.

Sweden and Switzerland are both long standing neutralists in foreign affairs have not been in a war in nearly three hundred years, so don’t write me and say "Ali that policy is unworkable", OK? As that wise and much ballyhooed Founding Father Ben Franklin noted, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Whether this advice is applicable in all circumstances or not I dunno. This policy used to be fashionable albeit with negative political consequences sometimes. However I for one am willing to give his advice a chance and see, eh?

---Ali Massoud