[Torie]

Maybe you should spend some time documenting as to why America cannot at this point handle its assumed responsibilities? I think you are just wishing it were so, because you don't like what America is trying to accomplish on this planet, which is to put down tyrants whenever they pose a serious threat to both America and the planet, including where politically possible on humanitarian grounds. If this mission is not right and noble, I don't know what is. America is a very special place, because more than any other land, it feels the pain of the oppressed other, and is willing to act on that pain. No people are an island. We are one. That is an a priori belief of mine. I make no apologies for that.

[A. Pole]

I think you are just wishing it were so, because you don't like what America is trying to accomplish on this planet

I admit that I am afraid of one center of power for the whole world. When such concentration of power occurs, without multipolar checks and balances, how the freedom can survive?

When the city state of Rome conquered the Mediterranean world, she lost her liberty and got absorbed by the Empire. Is the historical mission of America to unite the whole world?