Posted on 02/28/2008 4:03:20 AM PST by moderatewolverine
When President George Bush leaves office, will America once again be liked by most of the world? Not necessarily, since most current problems are either already getting better or not our fault.
When the next president takes office in January 2009, he or she will be confronted by a world that either understandably appreciates America or for self-interested reasons will challenge it.
On the positive side, the new president will see a Middle East without the Taliban in charge in Afghanistan or Saddam Hussein ruling Iraq. A stabilizing constitutional Iraq should result in a steadily diminishing American presence there.
In Europe, the French under Nicolas Sarkozy and the Germans under Angela Merkel will remain pro-American. But they will also expect continued American leadership. Both may talk grandly of the Atlantic Alliance, but in real terms they do little to help us in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
Most of Africa likewise is already friendly to the United States. And why not? President Bush extended more humanitarian aid to combat African hunger and disease than any president in our history.
But what of our enemies? Won’t adversaries back off when the Christian cowboy George Bush rides back to Texas — and we have a kinder, gentler commander-in-chief who offers hope, or at least change, to the world?
Hardly.
(Excerpt) Read more at primetimepolitics.com ...
2009 - Analog broadcast TV goes dark.
An excellent reminder of the state of the world.
Thanks for posting.
My pleasure. VDH is one of the few authors around that when he publishes, I know we’re in for a treat.
My title:
COMMON SENSE—and that excludes B. Hussein Obama
VDH bump
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