The Arrogant Empire: "Some in
The Arrogant Empire: "Some in Washington have pointed out that whenever the United States has taken strong military actionfor example, the deployment of Pershing nuclear missiles in Europe in the early 1980sthere was popular opposition in Europe. True, but this time its different.
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the United States will spend as much next year on defense as the rest of the world put together (yes, all 191 countries).
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The U.S. economy is as large as the next threeJapan, Germany and Britainput together. With 5 percent of the worlds population, this one country accounts for 43 percent of the worlds economic production, 40 percent of its high-technology production and 50 percent of its research and development.
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Given this situation, perhaps what is most surprising is that the world has not ganged up on America already.
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go back to 1945. When America had the world at its feet, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman chose not to create an American imperium, but to build a world of alliances and multilateral institutions.
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But should the guiding philosophy of the worlds leading democracy really be the tough talk of a Chicago mobster? In terms of effectiveness, this strategy has been a disaster. It has alienated friends and delighted enemies. Having traveled around the world and met with senior government officials in dozens of countries over the past year, I can report that with the exception of Britain and Israel, every country the administration has dealt with feels humiliated by it."