[ClearCase_guy]

Hamas is flexing muscles.
Hezbollah is waiting for an opportunity.
Iran is close to having nukes.
China has been building its military strength.
Russia is using fuel as a weapon in Europe.

And the US is entering a period of weakness.

I wonder if the rest of the world will wake up and decide that we actually were useful to have around and that maybe -- just maybe -- we weren't a brutal hegemonic power.

[TigerLikesRooster]

They will cry ‘U.S. isolationism’ then. They did it once. When Bush tried to pull U.S. troops out of Balkans, France cried ‘U.S. isolationism.’ When U.S. invaded Iraq, they cried ‘U.S. unilateralism.’

[popdonnelly]

“I wonder if the rest of the world will wake up”

The rest of the World isn’t “without sin” and uses the U.S. as a whipping boy. Still waiting for the rest of the World to take some moral stands, themselves. In the meantime, I don’t worry much about their opinions.