But getting down to Russia, Europe, Japan, China, Brazil, Iran and Israel. Russia sees its future increasingly aligned with Germany and keeping warm relationship with China. Russia is merely annoyed with the US in its backyard. Spending to much time on Russia is a wasted US interest. Europe is dying a slow death of low birthrates and high islamic immigration that it is unable to stop…increasingly sees its EU defenses with British and French nukes and Russian resources than the US.

Japan is the real shocker…distancing itself from the US is a shift in the entire asian power alliance toward china and is going to have repurcussions for US defenses and ability to project power on issues like North Korea but I suspect that is the reason we are losing Japan and South Korea. They finally saw the cards…the US was using Japan & South Korea for influence but after selling out Taiwan to China and demonstrating the US would not defend it…the ramifications were whether the US would declare war to defend Japan and South Korea…and the test was the incompetent and powerless approach to North Korean nukes and missiles as we focus on Iran for Israel. CONGRATULATIONS WE ARE LOSING JAPAN BECAUSE OF OUR CONSTANT FOCUS ON ISRAEL AND IRAN.

And now to China, Japan, South Korea…major asian exporters to the US who refuse to stop manipulating their currencies and engage in free trade as the US has rampant unemployment…which signals the further hollowing out of all private sector manufacturing and technology jobs in the US that do not relate to healthy industries connected to the government (ie banking and finance through the fed, military and defense industry, healthcare and agriculture). A first world power cannot survive fiscally, technologically, militarily or financially with such a house of cards with the missing key supports missing.

The US is in a multi-polar world and Obama has not transitioned the US into it but compared to his predecessor BUSHII has created a power vacuum that every 2nd tier nation is rising to its new level of influence.

And what is Obama focusing on: immigration, healthcare, energy and transportation and foreign wars. All signs of incompetent corporate dominated neocommunist party politics…same BUSHII focused on incompetent corporate dominated neconervative politics.

PAT BUCHANAN IS AGAIN RIGHT ON THE MONEY. NO THE US IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE LOOKING FOR EMPIRE AND FRANKLY ITS TIME FOR THE EU TO STEP UP TO ITS NATIONAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES DOMESTICALLY AND IN NORTH AFRICA AND WITH RUSSIA, ITS ALSO TIME FOR JAPAN TO STEP UP TO ITS SHARE OF RESPONSIBILITIES IN NORTH EAST ASIA.

HOWEVER…THERE IS NO SIGN OF ANY NATIONALISM TO MATCH THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER THAT OBAMA HAS NOW SET INTO MOTION. WE NO LONGER NEED IMMIGRATION FOR OUR SHRINKING MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE SECTORS, WE NO LONGER NEED BASES ALL OVER THE WORLD OR PROXY WARS FOR EVERY NATION, WE NO LONGER NEED FREE TRADE WITH THE WORLD.

THE KEY WORDS THAT THE PAT BUCHANAN HAS NOT PICKED UP ON IS SELF SUFFICIENCY AND NATIONALISTIC INDEPENDENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, A RETURN TO AN EISENHOWER LIKE 1950S WHERE THE US WAS ENERGY INDEPENDENT, OUR PRIORITIES WERE NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN POWER GENERATION, POWER DISTRIBUTION, RAIL&LIGHT RAIL&TROLLEY&AIR&HIGWAY TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY AND MANUFACTURING/SERVICES.

ONE LAST THING…THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TURNING ON THE GOVERNMENT…ARE NOT THREATS OR TRAITORS…INSTEAD THEY ARE AIMING AT THE LARGE CIVIL SERVICE UNION CONTRACTS AND MILITARY CONTRACTS THAT ARE BANKRUPTING MOST STATES IN THE UNION…PARTICULARLY THE MOST LIBERAL LEANING STATES IN THE UNION….DEMOCRATS DONT SEE THE RUG UNDER THEIR FEET IS UNRAVELING…AND ONE NEED LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE RON PAUL MOVEMENT FOR THE ANTI-GOLDMAN SACHS-FED ALLIANCE THAT PEOPLE NO BLAME FOR THE REPEATED CYCLE OF CRASHES, REPEATED CYCLES OF CORRUPTION AND LONG DECLINE IN LIVING STANDARDS.

Liberals generally have a foreign policy crisis and they lack a coherent foreign policy agenda except do the exact opposite of what the conservatives do.”

Well no, I disagree. From my perspective (that is of a citizen of small backwatter state somewhere in central Europe) there is basically no difference in what the US is doing. Maybe the republicans are a bit more “gun crazies” than the democrats, but the goals remain the same. Obama tries to reach them together with his allies, Bush would insist on a more unilateral aproach, but neither of them would withdraw from Afganistan – the catching of Bin Laden and the entire conflict in the Middle East has become a question of national prestige – “What would the world say, how would we look into the faces of our citizens if we came back with just empty hands and a few thousand coffins?”

I personally don’t think, that the US will remain the dominant superpower in the coming decades. The US (and the other nations of the West) consume more goods than they produce, but in order to maintain their living standards they become indebted. It is very easy to get credit, as long as the US Dollar is the reserve currency of the world, but it looks like the other powers of the world try to challenge the supreme rule of the dollar and sooner or later they will succeed.

Whether they like it or not, everyone has to ensure America remains the power it is.

Liberals generally have a foreign policy crisis and they lack a coherent foreign policy agenda except do the exact opposite of what the conservatives do.

Excuse me! Can Pat not see the pointlessness of this remark? Who are shipping American jobs, factories, and technology to China? American business leaders who have no loyalty to USA chasing short-term profit! I am an Australian, and the same thing is happening in Australia.

Either this is happening by design, then no amount of complaining is justified, or by stupidity and greed, in that case why the governments are not acting to halt this self-defeating outcome. They may not control what China does, but surely they should be able to control what businesses do in their own countries.

I agree 100%, and I think this condescending attitude that patriotism and love of country and culture is somehow provincial and backward comes out of the internationalist dogma that says nationalism is a relic of the past. This profound hatred of nationalism originated on the internationalist Left (because of its own delusions of grandeur and destiny — that it and it alone held the key to the future of mankind), but today it has actually been embraced and encouraged by elements of the Right for their own greedy purposes. For example, multi national corporations and corporate advocates of open borders embrace internationalism, necessary in order to grow markets and drive down the price of labor. And of course, there was the pretentious internationalist Bushcon/Neocon scheme to “remake the Middle East,” which is yet more Marxist-think drivel.

IMO, both the elitist Left and elitist Right have become an enemy to the American national interests and the American constitution, and now worship the false God of internationalism. The irony is, so many Boomers (and really all Americans) don’t even realize it’s their own internationalist pretensions that are the cause of their current misery and are dooming America’s future.

I guess years of atheist-materialist, internationalist Marxist-think has penetrated deeply into to the psyches of the “elite” on both the Right and Left and trickled down to the masses, and today most Americans don’t even know enough to take care of their own first. Not very “sophisticated,” that. Why, even an animal has more common sense.

We were driving together with my boss two months ago, and Hillary held a speech somewhere, I can’t remember where about “democracy, freedom, human rights, progress … etc.”

My boss is over 40, I am 27. I was only 7 years old during the Velvet Revolution, but some things from the socialist era I remember (particularly the speeches of communist functionaries) quite well, so I asked him: “Hey boss, doesn’t the speech sound like it held some “comrade”, just the words like socialism, comunism, social securities were exchanged for democracy, freedom, human rights?”

He just laughted

That’s why national unity is unraveling.

yes, and like a 12 year old boy w/ a machine gun.

Sometimes the world encourages this vanity. Remember the reception Obama got in Germany? Little wonder the administration got it in its collective head that the world would roll over to its will.

But the truth of the matter is, America today is regarded the world over as the rich and vain playboy who is beloved by everyone in the bar while he’s buying their drinks, but deep down, no one really respects or takes seriously because they know he’s not a serious person.

I hate to say it, but the Baby Boomer generation of leadership, from Clinton through W through Obama and most of the pols in between, has been epically vain, flaky, naive and incompetent. Like Obama, it seems to believe that its wish is God’s command. And remember the Bush administration’s delusion?: “We’re an empire now, we create our own reality.”

These simply are not serious or responsible people. Yes, many Boomers are highly creative, and that has brought certain technological advantages to America. But the drawbacks far outweigh their contributions, and their general lack of competence and serousness has basically destroyed the country.

“Multilateralism and globalism are on the way out. Unilateralism and nationalism are on the way in.
As other countries look out for their national interests first, why do we not do the same?
If we Americans will not put America first, who will?”

Agree. Ahmadinejad comes to Brazil and then he’s gone. So what?

Obama gets dissed? Big deal. America still has its trillion dollar a year war machine always in gear.