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A New American Century or a Century of Wars?

I have heard all sorts of promises from all the prospective candidates over the last year or so……We have heard the America will be great again….and that we are looking at a new American century….and I have said that no matter who wins this election we are looking at many more years of war….possibly several generations…..”same old sh*t, different administration”……

So sports fans……what will it be….something new or more of the same…..?

Vladimir Putin recently manned up and admitted it. The United States remains the planet’s sole superpower, as it has been since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. “America,” the Russian president said, “is a great power. Today, probably, the only superpower. We accept that.”

Think of us, in fact, as the default superpower in an ever more recalcitrant world.

Seventy-five years ago, at the edge of a global conflagration among rival great powers and empires, Henry Luce first suggested that the next century could be ours.  In February 1941, in his magazine LIFE, he wrote a famous essay entitled “The American Century.”  In it, he proclaimed that if only Americans would think internationally, surge into the world, and accept that they were already at war, the next hundred years would be theirs.  Just over nine months later, the Japanese attacked the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, plunging the country into World War II.  At the time, however, Americans were still riven and confused about how to deal with spreading regional conflicts in Europe and Asia, as well as the rise of fascism and the Nazis.

Source: A new American Century or a Century of Wars and Refugees? | Informed Comment

It is YOU!  You will decide if were truly have a new American century or a century of wars….Your choice!

Truthful I am not optimistic I mean what can you expect a thoughtful vote from a society that goes looking for Pokemon?

Seriously

20 thoughts on “A New American Century or a Century of Wars?”

  1. Haha..Pokeman…wots that?
    sounds dirty…grin.
    Well,I’m with you and the prognosis ain’t looking good…
    Still,trying to get to the bottom of something…I have a contact in ur country and both of us are unable to retweet a certain person…involved in 9/11 investigation….hhmmm…..went around another route..1st time it has happened….bastards.
    cya…good post.

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      1. Alright then….
        All these wars are really just ‘bankers wars’
        Greed and naught else…
        Strange people abound….

      2. Perhaps,you might find this on trend?
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        Enjoy Your weekend chuq. 😉

      3. I enloy talking to myself and yes I even argue also…my grandfather told me that when you talk to yourself “you talk to a better class of people”…..Hahahaha

      4. Hahaha…….it’s bloody 2am…& u made me laugh! sod off! 🙂

      6. Oh Penn; Sod Off! I haven’t “heard” that phrase since I was running with Aussie & Brit mechanics in F1…WoW a blast from the past.

        As to technojerks, every-time you get a new credit or debit card in the mail, the magnetic strip has all your data on it….that itty bitty piece of plastic traces ALL your moves.

        You know what? 1984 actually did come in 1984 it is just that we were too stoned, weirded out, medicated, or inebriate to see/hear/know it; either that or our shoulder pads were blocking our ears. ~~dru~~

      7. Hahaha!…So good to hear from you ~my Dru~ you gladden what’s left of my heart..grin x

      9. Geez there are so many groups running the world these guys have got to be stepping on each other toes….

  3. In truth, the rest of the world was already at war. It took the States getting the sh*t bombed out of them to join the fight against Germany. Coincidentally, Russia was already on board. However, the United States can rewrite history at their leisure.

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  5. Oh, I am well aware of that fact. But the topic at hand was how and when the States entered into WWII. And, in my opinion, Japan should not have been the catalyst for America to do the right thing.

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