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Originally posted by Firestormalpha:
Svaerdhelgon, it's not that Americans are more full of themselves, or more power hungry than other world leaders. It's just that they don't hide it as well. 
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Hehe nice one...
According to my kind of logic the world would be a safer place with 2 or more superpowers. Particularly when the nuclear bomb is in the equation.
During the cold war the two powers USA and USSR were keeping each other chess mate (correct expression???). A direct war would lead to mutual destruction, well the two power of cause had to test their powers against each other (Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc.), but newer a full-scale direct battle. Even during an as difficult crisis as the Cuban one they eventually came to an understanding.
Today you see at world with the USA as a lone super power, and they do pretty much what they like (e.g. the war on Iraq, nine out of ten world citizens were against the war).
The war on Iraq isn’t a very big problem to the world safety. But other aspects of the American foreign policy are, mainly concerning North Korea and Israel/Palestine/Iran.
As for North Korea the American refuse to declare the war over, there is only a truth (sp?), during the last couple of decades there has been launched embargo after embargo onto the poor Asian country. And as of lately they have been announced as a part of the axis of evil, which we have seen gives USA the right to attack in “self-defense”. That would not be a problem to world safety if it weren’t for the fact that North Korea has got the potential to build a nuclear boom. If we hypothetically imagine that the US were to continue the strict line that specific “enemy”, then N K would find them selves in a situation where they are being pushed toward to possible lines of action. One possibility is that they were to surrender and admit the failure of their glorious communism, unlikely.
The other possibility is; some psyco communist leader will choose to go out with a bang, likely.
The Israel/Palestine/Iran is a much longer story but it comes down to: Israel and Iran are both having a large range of mass destruction weapons. The Americans killing Muslims all around the world and giving Israel weapon and money. At some point it will be too much to take for the Arabic pride and they will go too war over Palestine. Unless something is done in a near future, and with the work we have seen from Bush so fare doesn’t indicate that anything will happen soon.
If we hypothetically were to imagine that the USSR still were standing and with a military capacity that could match the US. Do any of you honestly think that an American president would announce that the US is aloud to attack anyone who poses a potential treat?
I don't know how much sense this makes, it is rather late in denmark right now...