This is less America-bashing by Buruma, who's an intelligent observer, than simply rueful acknowledgment of reality.
Indeed, the U.S. is the policeman of the world, and why shouldn’t we be? Is this the type of job that should be left to:
· The Japanese with their colorful history of responsible use of military power and respect for human rights?
· Perhaps to the Bucket-heads and their past misinterpretations of borders and treaties?
· The Chutney Ferrets, who’ve had to have been kicked out of every country they’ve ever paid a visit to?
· The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys, who brought us the Maginot Line, left the U.S. holding the bag in 3 wars in the past 100 years and lost a war with GreenPeace?
· The Ruskies, our cold war nemesis who somehow is credited with possessing an intercontinental Nuclear Missile, yet can’t even manufacture a car?
No, the U.S. will continue to be the policeman of the world while the rest of the (so called) developed world devotes their budgets toward experiments with socialsm.
Owl _ Eagle
“Guns before butter.”