Posted on 05/26/2008 5:44:02 AM PDT by steelboy
Americans tend to think of the presidency as all-powerful, but much of its authority comes from the ability to convince the public to follow, and the same is sometimes true in diplomacy. The time when George W. Bush could perform that trick has long passed. But if Americans are adjusting to the idea of a weak Bush, an even tougher mental leap awaits them once he leaves office: accepting that the U.S. isn't the force abroad it was just a few years ago. The next President's hardest job may be getting the country used to that
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
“...accepting that the U.S. isn’t the force abroad it was just a few years ago”
Oh yeah? Ask AQ what they think.
Is this more liberal projection about the US, or about the MSM?
Yup, I’m going to change my beliefs after reading a report contained in a rapidly sinking magazine written by a journalism major who probably couldn’t pass math 101. Riiiiiight!
you know I heard this in college Anthropology class 35 years ago, and the left has worked on making it come true for all the decades since.
Check out the authors of this article.
about Christianity?
TIME was.....
Yup. A massive dose of wishful thinking on the part of the authors. ....and their self-hating, guilt-ridden liberal employers at Time.
Let me get this straight, the US is an “Incredible Shrinking Superpower” because President Bush failed to reduce the price of gas, get a Palestinian agreement, and guarantee Iran doesn’t get the bomb.
If that really the definition of a “superpower”?
I always thought a superpower had the ability to use military, diplomatic, and economic tools much more effectively than other countries. The US has some big sticks that can be used and the whole world still watches when we park an aircraft carrier of the coast of a country.
While in most cases "so-and-so is never as strong as he looks, and is never as weak as he looks" is a good rule to follow, with the U.S. is is more like "The U.S. is never as weak as it looks, and is almost always far stronger than it looks."
Time has always been anti-US euro one world garbage shyte.
Bush then went on to taunt them they were running out of oil and needed to diversify their economies. I thought it was a strange mixed message; maybe he was just working out some personal pique.
I heard this exact thing 35 years ago as well, but it was a college Sociology class.
Whatever one thinks of Bush (I happen to like him), he has in seven years completely disarmed Libya (which Reagan couldn’t or didn’t do), surrounded Iran with two friendly MUSLIM states on either side, each of which has massive American staging bases, realigned the entire political framework of Europe so that now France, Britain, Germany, Poland, the Ukraine, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and many other states are now on “our side,” and somehow kept American industry rolling despite a war and economic sniping by Hugo Chavez and the Chinese.
a journalism major who probably couldn’t pass math
A muslim journalism major who probably couldn’t pass “respect for other religions”
Time ^ | 5/19/2008 | MASSIMO CALABRESI/AL JANADRIYAH
Uh huh. The name says it all.
Hillary heard it 40 years ago, but she believed it
Ask Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel, Germany, France, China, Russia, and India what they think. It used to be that the U.S. could exert influence and get other countries to follow our leadership. Now Saudi Arabia says no to more oil. Iran ignores us. We can't get France or Germany to staff their commitments to Afganistan at proper level. China and Russia are openly contemptuous. Israel knows we're willing to sell them down the river so Bush can wave some sort of peace agreement before he leaves office. And India views us as somewhere to steal jobs from. Rice has been a disaster as a Secretary of State, and Bush generates little or no respect from his peers.
Time wallows in the sweet despair of liberal poets...Cry for me America, Bush was selected but Obama is coming. He will tell us the truth.It was all our fault.We are not worthy.....SWEET MALAISE...getting ready for Jimmy Carter’s second term?
Do we have anymore Cabernet?
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