Friday, February 07, 2003

[Colin Glassey] An American Empire? Here is a good essay by Collin May called If anyone has a better idea than an American empire, I’d certainly like to hear it. Here is the opening paragraph: Over the last couple of days, I’ve been watching some French political discussions on television, and the one thing that struck me was, no matter the issue, one thing was clear: the United States and the United States alone has the necessary resources to deal with international problems. Indeed, I would go even further to say that recent events, especially as regards Europe in general and France in particular, demonstrate that the rest of the world is almost entirely unable to deal with any international crises. As a result, one could almost say that the contrast between the United States and the remainder of the world is equivalent to the difference between order on the one hand and almost complete chaos on the other. While some may seek an alternate world order to that guaranteed by the United States, I would state simply that no such alternative now exists. There is American order or there is disaster. I agree. If the United States choose to follow Pat Buchannon and ignore the rest of world, no other coutry would be able to do anything about Iraq. Not Russia (which can't even control Chechnya), not England, not France, not China, not India, not Germany, no one. 6:17:26 PM     [Colin Glassey] New Words WordSpy.com is a very good web site which lists new works that are barging their way into the English language. Try some of these words out: Bitter-blocker, Bridezilla, and Joy-to-Stuff ratio. 4:30:31 PM

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