US won't stay on top, says Clinton

canberra.yourguide.com.au (downunder) ^ | Monday, 25 February 2002 | AAP (?)

[It'salmosttolate]

US won't stay on top, says Clinton

AAP
Monday, 25 February 2002
Sydney

ACKNOWLEDGING the United States would not be the world's most powerful nation forever might lead to a better approach in its current international relations, former US president Bill Clinton said today.

Speaking at the 2002 World Congress on the Peaceful Reunification of China and World Peace in Sydney, Mr Clinton said this "brief moment in history" when the US had pre-eminent military, economic and political power, would not last.

"This is just a period, a few decades this will last, and I think that all of us who are Americans should think about this and ask ourselves how do we wish this moment to be judged 50 years from now," he said.

"And how would we like to be treated when we no longer have this pre-eminent position and we have to work in a cooperative fashion with others to a far greater extent than we have to do today.

"It seems to me if we would think about it like that it would be much more likely to lead all Americans, without regard of their party, to making the right decisions about how we should approach a lot of these problems that we face."

The former president said he did not want to be critical of the current US Administration.

"I feel that I should be careful in what I say [but] I believe that the [current US] President has been much more interested in international cooperation since September 11th, and I take that to be a very positive sign," Mr Clinton said.

He also said he hoped President George W. Bush's recent visit to Korea would have a positive outcome.

"I certainly have no illusions about the North Korean Government," he said.

". . . But the fact is they ended their nuclear program in 94, in 98 they ended testing of long-range missiles and in 2000 we had the elements of an agreement with them to end their entire missile program."

Mr Clinton's comments come after Mr Bush named North Korea as one country in its "axis of evil" along with Iraq and Iran last month.

Mr Bush visited South Korea for the first time last week. AAP

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Nah, he suffers from TRAITORIUS PROFUCI !!

[gusopol3]

I heard this line, "U.S. is past its prime," beginning in college in mid-70's. Who was the author 15 years ago who had Japan ascending to the gold-medal spot on the cover of his book: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers? Appreciated your perspective on U.S. power vis-a vis Europe from 1860's onward. Recently read an excerpt of a biography of C.S. Lewis, who, while hunkering down in a trench in France, as a 19 year old, in 1917, looked forward with great anticipation to the arrival of the Americans that he saw as the only alternative to death in the trench. Clinton is wishful-thinking along the lines of his sovereignty-surrendering pal, Strobe Talbot.

[RedWing9]

Mr Clinton said this "brief moment in history" when the US had pre-eminent military, economic and political power, would not last.

You know, I would lean toward his being correct, had it not been for this garbage...

"This is just a period, a few decades this will last, and I think that all of us who are Americans should think about this and ask ourselves how do we wish this moment to be judged 50 years from now," he said.

IMO, we will just be starting to truly be in our glory 50 years from now. But I do realize that societal evolution will someday remove these borders most of us hold dear. Lets just hope that these borders can extend around the entire Earth.

[Southack]

"I heard this line, "U.S. is past its prime," beginning in college in mid-70's. Who was the author 15 years ago who had Japan ascending to the gold-medal spot on the cover of his book: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers?"

I hammered Paul Kennedy on his "Japan will rule us" claim at the time, but I do grant that Kennedy made a very astute point about nations that have fallen because they spent too little on their national defense while others fell because they spent too much on defense and went bankrupt.

Note to Kennedy: The U.S. is the goldilocks of spending...

[Inkie]

Read Larry Elder's opinion column on the back page of the Investors Business Daily for tomorrow (Monday). It catalogues the entire deal Bubba made with Loral and how it sold out American security for campaign bucks. For instance, did you know that the change from State Department to Commerce Department power over high-tech sales to China was accomplished overnight through Clinton's executive order?

What was it the War Room folks used to say? "Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Cool." The gulag is too good for these people.

[AmericanVictory]

Nice to see the first traitor president come out of the closet. He never liked this country's constitutional system and does not want to see it succeed, knowing in his heart, that if it does,it will do so by moving away from him and all he stood for leaving him no legacy except ss the first hate America firster to be elected President.

[Barnacle]

Mr Clinton said this "brief moment in history" when the US had pre-eminent military, economic and political power, would not last. "This is just a period, a few decades this will last, and I think that all of us who are Americans should think about this and ask ourselves how do we wish this moment to be judged 50 years from now,"

Çliñt¤ñ is in essence telling us "Prepare your minds for defeat so that your conquerors will be merciful to you."

I’m not sure that I can say that on Free Republic, but it’s true. - Çliñt¤ñ is a piece of treasonous crap!
There, I said it. - Crap, crap, crap! Çliñt¤ñ is a piece of treasonous crap!

[It'salmosttolate]

Have you seen this? CLINTON CHINA-GATE DIGITAL BOOK

[Barnacle]

Justice! Where is justice?

I knew she was blind. But, is she deaf and dumb too?

[iconoclast]

You a$$hole, you can't recognize the difference that Pat has been trying to warn us for years, and Clinton is ready and eager to surrender!

[Dog Gone]

There certainly are many differences between the two men, and I never suggested there wasn't.

Your use of $ signs in your insult to me, however, doesn't make it any less offensive, incidentally.

[Richard Axtell]

Any remaining Clinton supporters need to either wake up or take an overdose of seconal, as Clinton will never be any more than the traitor, liar, criminal that he proves and re-proves to us virtually every day. Words cannot convey the feeling of disgust and revulsion that I feel when I think of the yet undisclosed destruction this evil man has meted out to his own country. May god have mercy on his twisted soul, as I never shall.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Clinton sez:" how do we wish this moment to be judged 50 years from now" (not that anybody gives a d*mn anyway,what Mr. President Shameless sez.)

It is simple Bill- we want to be remembered for doing the right thing, rather than what polls showed to be the popular thing.

[RichInOC]

Clinton never got on top, says Lewinsky

[harpo11]

Is ex-#42 admitting that he orchestrated and facilitated this demise? If that is the case, John Ashcroft are you listening?

The GAO wants to sue Cheney...we would have been better served if it was Clinton.

[harpo11]

"The former president said he did not want to be critical of the current US Administration."

"I feel that I should be careful in what I say [but] I believe that the [current US] President has been much more interested in international cooperation since September 11th, and I take that to be a very positive sign," Mr Clinton said."

Oh sure, right, Clinton's says he needs to be careful of what he says and he doesn't want to be critical. Therefore, he is obviously critical and appears to be rather green with envy.

Gosh, he must be eating his heart out that he spent his presidency accomplishing nothing lasting or enduring other than (well being the joke of the century for having sex in the oval office with a woman almost his daughters age) the title the first elected president that was impeached for perjury, obstruction of justice, and later lost his law license for contempt of court.

[Cobra64]

Clinton's like a canker. A sore that won't go away.

More like an itching, swollen 'roid.

[Revel]

For once he is right. But most importantly this is truly a self fulfilling prophecy. He made it true during his 8 years in office when he set China up for the kill by selling us out in the act of treason. And I can't for the life of me figure out why the current administration appears to be kissing up to China also.