Ivan Canas:
The US capability to exercise its power on smaller countries is coming to an end. The reason: the US economy is collapsing. The US debt is unpayable. The USA invaded Iraq thinking that the Iraqi people was going to greet them with flowers at their arrival. They thought that they could have their hands in Iraq's Oils for years to come in a short period of time so the could enjoy cheap Oil by flooding the market with Iraq's Oil.
The stark reality is another. Iraq is a destroyed country and religious factions are in disarray. They have been spending money on imposing their ways around the world.
They thought that with the Soviet Union out of the way, far right policies could be spread and that fact was their chance to export money for USA hegemony purposes.
Well, it went wrong if the USA wants to survive and recover all those policies will have to stop. They will have to reduce expenses in all areas.
I would like to see if the USA will accept the International Monetary Fund (IMF)policies in their on land.
The USA has two options: It will have to apply Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic policies (which by the way were not liberal policies he was a progressive reformer, New Deal etc.)or go to war which is a kind of economy that will re-activate the economic engine relatively quickly.
The Soviet Union was responsible and it did choose to dismantle itself. Will the USA 'dismantle' itself? or will the USA put the world at risk of a third world war?
Other countries should search for the creation of a new currency for world trading, the euro? Maybe new international organisations should be created to confront this new world reality.
Who is responsible for this mess in the USA: the Neo Conservatives and their figure head George W.Bush. The Democrats are not angels either.
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