Politico is reporting and Drudge Report was parroting earlier today a screaming headline, “Obama Intel Council: U.S. Finished As Sole Superpower.”
Here is the full report entitled “Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds” — prepared by the office of the National Intelligence Council of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, if you need some happy holiday reading.
The subject of our photo caption contest is also from Drudge Report, (I give credit where credit it due) about how the Chinese are “going shopping in America.” So I thought the two stories tied in well together for a double dose of pre-holiday depression.
Here is an opportunity for all Tatler Photo Caption Contest fans to channel their creative energies and submit an appropriate caption as you buy all those Christmas presents made in China.
To start things off here is my entry:
Once you break it, you own it.
Not bad, but I know “cfbleachers,” the King of Caption Contest winners can do much better.
The contest winner receives a set of cheap Chinese tires, sure to blow out on your holiday road trip.
Now you know the contest rules, “be nice and stay classy because the media is watching,” but do we REALLY care?
Good luck and try to have some fun with your entries because I know this is one of our more downbeat photo caption contests — but NOT as depressing as the last one.
“I un-built that!”
1)We’ve adopted China’s flag because ours was just not Red enough for the Democrats.
2)Once I built a Tower, made it high, made it reach to the Sun. Then I went voted for the One brother can you spare a Yuan?
3)Oh great. Now we pay our tax and in an hour Congress needs another one.
4)The capital is fading out of the picture. With the coming of Chinese dominance we now have people in charge who know math.
Would you like the extended warranty with that?
“They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that.”
Why would anyone ever think that America as a sole super-power was going to last forever in the first place?
Until the 20th Century we weren’t a superpower. It was when we turned out industrial might to that end that we achieved that goal.
We became the sole superpower because the others stopped playing the game, albeit temporarily, when the Berlin Wall came down and the Iron Curtain rusted.
Now the usual players are getting back to thier old tricks again and we will again be challenged for supremacy.
Ever it always was, and forver it will always be when great powers go head to head.
We are in for a new cold war with new allies and rivals. This will not be a rehash of 1945-1990 as their will be new players along with the old and new alliances and rivalries.
This is one reason why the disfunctional mess that we call military procurement needs to be re-vamped from top to bottom with things like cost overruns coming out of the civial service pension fund. There needs to be a cost for the managers of mis-managed programs. I’ve never seen a GS-14 fired for overseeing a failing project.
I’ve never seen anything in the Constitution that authorizes the feral government to become a global super-power, nor have I ever seen any advantage to the American people in the government’s becoming such.
As well as I can discern, we’ve sacrificed a great many irreplaceable American lives and uncountable trillions of dollars trying to play world’s cop; concurrently, we’ve done precisely nothing to defend America against the openly avowed global warfare of Islamic jihad.
The so-called “War on Terror” has cost us thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, yet we now have a high member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Huma Abedin, doing double duty as the Secretary of State’s highest assistant, and hand billions in “foreign aid” to the Muslim Brotherhood dictator of Egypt. It’s apparent from what we know thus far of the Benghazi fiasco the U.S. was arming Islamic jihadis. President You Didn’t Build That and the State Department look extremely likely to choose sides with more of the same or closely similar jihadis in the Syrian debacle. Worst of all, the U.S. now regards one of its few allies, Israel, as an emeny.
Where, I ask, do American interests lie in any of that? What improvements in national security, I ask, do we have to show for eleven years’ worth of war in assorted parts of the Middle East? How, I ask, could a nation that can’t even be troubled to defend itself expect to pose as a “super-power” without being laughed off stage?
The US has, since the beginning, acted to project power globally to protect its interests. I seem to recall something about the shores of Tripoli in a certain hymn.
The ability to project global power is what defines a superpower. This is, on the whole, a good thing to be able to do.
I don’t have a specific response to much of your response. I agree with much of the sentiment.
I will instead just say that just because you have the ability to project power globally doesn’t mean that you will be wise enough to do it effectively.
Modern leaders would do well to read Winston Churchills history of the second world war and A History of the English Speaking peoples. That is, if they could understand the lessons therein, which I sadly doubt.
– say does that Star-crescent banner yet waive
Accords and Treaties signed by our naive?
One is the loneliest number that you ever knew!!!
Barak Obama: “At a certain point, you’ve made enough money.”
Deng Xiaoping: “To get rich is glorious.”
We have a president who’s to the left of a communist leader.
I’ll buy that for a dollar…or a yuan.
1)Democratic Party loyalties, one from menu A and one from menu B.
2)Hey, look what Anita Dunn!
3)Tom Friedman just caught Chris Matthews’ tingle up his leg.
4)Four little stars and one big star on a red background. Maryland, Massachussetts, Illinois, Vermont…and California!
5)China meets Harry Reid. Mao Tse Tung and Mousy Tongue.
6)Let a hundred bowers gloom.
7)Confucius says:”In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.” In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” In a country governed by radical leftists, the country itself is what they are ashamed of. Then as rulers, they get all of us to agree.
8)The Obama Opera, Madman Flutterby.
9)Obama, Anita Dunn and Tom Friedman…Pander Express.
Well, long before anybody known as Obama, the U.S. has for many decades been trying to emulate Europe (loser) and at the same time, heavily involved in the reformation of China’s (evolving power) agriculture, industrial and social complex.
Pretty shallow to be blaming ‘Obama’ for all the global activity and changes that have been evolving for many decades. Oh, and Russia’s influence in Syria, Iran and other spots of the Middle East and Africa have been in place for many a decades so the current geopolitical landscape is not something exclusive to Obama’s soon to be four year reign. During the 80s China was given virtually free reign over industrial and defense espionage. During the 90s the U.S. sold out industrial mfg and replaced it with a service and intellectual economy, selling and or partnering intellectual rights to China by the boatloads.
Sometimes, the legitmate facts are hard to swallow.
1) Obama finally found the rest of the “57 states”.
2) Concrete proof of Obama’s “fundamental change”.
3) As one flag falls, another rises…(with a little help from The Won).
4) Obama: “Gee, that took longer than I thought it would!”
5) Obama: “Wow, it actually worked!”
How about “Mission Accomplished”?
Typical Obama: More red ink, more red tape and now more red flags.
Red Flag Warning?
1)One World Socialism and its Sino Qua Non
2)Obama in 2013, well it IS the year of the snake!
3)Well, it finally came true. Hu’s your daddy.
“Obama Intel Council: U.S. Finished As Sole Superpower.”
True that, once our trading partners and debt holders come up with a viable alternative to the US dollar as a store of value it will be game over.
And that day WILL arrive sometime in Obama’s second term…
Yes, I agree that this issue receives very little attention and once the dollar is no longer the world reserve currency it will be THE END of a once great nation that changed the world. It is no longer a matter of IF but WHEN.