[guitarplayer1953]

His statement with “In other words, we give up any pretense of being a power.” And my response what give us the right to go into any country and force our will upon them through our actions of stick and carrot? We have sown so much hatred since ww2 through out the world by the action of our CIA and their limited covert operations taking down governments and training one group today and tomorrow they are our enemies. We have become what England was an arrogant power full of dead mans bones.

[Psalm 144]

I don’t disagree that we have been too active in gunboat diplomacy, military adventures and ‘nation building’, and ultimately to our detriment - after all: here we are, as we are.

But I do not see that in rmlew’s post. Being a power does not require abuse of that power, no more than health and strength compels aggression.