[ExtremeUnction]

The US still rules the world? What kind of traitor are you to this republic that prays for American empire over America republic? America is (or should be) a leading light of example to the world not its overlord.

America is EMPIRE!! We do rule the world. Why do we have all those carriers, all those Marines floating, ready to attack at a moment's notice, all those nukes??!! To rule the world!!!! And we do. And the frogs rule squat. You need a class on current events.

[dervish]

“Anyone who dislikes U.S. hegemony should bear in mind that, instead of a multipolar world of competing great powers, a world with no hegemon at all may be the real alternative to it. This could turn out to mean a new Dark Age of waning empires and religious fanaticism; of endemic rapine in the world's no-go zones; of economic stagnation and a retreat by civilization into a few fortified enclaves. “

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/analysis/2004/0621endofpower.htm

Thank God the US 'rules' the world.