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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on February 25, 2011 at 1:21am

Richard Holbrooke was a warmonger par excellence. He didn't have many friends, but one real friend he did find in Thaçi, whose organ trafficking maffia regime in former Serbian province Kosovo is today thanks to Holbrooke an independent, well on their way to become another failed, state. Holbrooke was a disaster for humanity and it is no loss for the world he can't actively do any harm anymore. Now we just have to deal with his disastrous legacy.

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Permalink Reply by Pope OoO (Out of Order) on February 25, 2011 at 1:33am

I'm reading & watching more now. I'm still skeptical that issues are as clear as some people claim, but it is clear I have to learn more.

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Permalink Reply by Yahweh on February 25, 2011 at 4:53am

here's the thing: United States have to assert their dominance and remind everyone who is the top dog.  Over time maybe one or two countries will forget who is the top dog and think that the states is slacking so they will go attack the states. so yes they do have to do what' they're doing.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on February 25, 2011 at 11:12am

What country would be able to attack the US. Only Canada perhaps in some weird parallel Universe. It is about power dominance indeed, global power. But the age of US supremacy is nearly over, not despite some threat to it's military superiority, but because it is betting all on it.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on February 25, 2011 at 1:18pm

The US might at least have tried to show some honour by attacking their enemies with that mighty military of theirs rather than always using cowardly, covert tactics like funding foreign rebels through third party corporations with money they got trading guns with drug cartels.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on February 25, 2011 at 8:38pm

muaha ha ha ROFLMAO and LMAO again!

That would be like lampreys deciding to attack sharks! Parallel universe indeed :)

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on February 25, 2011 at 8:45pm

Canada could just stop exporting oil to the USA - even sharks can die of hunger.

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Permalink Reply by T A A on February 25, 2011 at 9:43pm

:P

FTW!

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Permalink Reply by Yahweh on February 25, 2011 at 10:34pm

It does not matter which country. The attack won't serve to crumble the United States, but to do damage. A surprise bomb drop to a medium sized city will cause a lot of pain not just physical pain.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on February 26, 2011 at 1:28am

That is at least not flat-out impossible as your previous suggestion, but nearly so as it would accomplish exactly nothing. Unless the US military reaction itself is your goal, as it was and remains the strategy of Al Qaida in a repetition to their slaying of the USSR: to pinprick the beast until it bleeds to death, they need to be able to reach it first.

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Permalink Reply by Ben on February 25, 2011 at 1:54pm

No, we do not have to and should not attempt to assert our dominance. 

 

History teaches us that all things have an end- U.S. dominance will have an end just as Roman, Turkish, French, British etc. dominance had an end.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on February 25, 2011 at 2:10pm

It is not entirely true. The empires may have ended, but their acheivements permeates modern society - Roman law, Ottoman (there was never been a Turkish empire) science, French humanist ideals, and British politics.

What will be the legacy of the U.S. is too soon to tell, but I doubt it will follow the course of its predecessors in the Americas which mostly slipped through the sands of time.

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