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When Will American Realize the World Has Changed?

I was born and raised in the US and have lived abroad for 10 years of my adult life (I'm now in the UK). I can say from experience and observation, we (I only have 3 more years 'til I get a european passport, so it won't be "we" for too much longer) Americans are clueless...CLUE LESS

We start wars that solve nothing yet don't fight wars that could solve problems; we support dictatorships that imprison their people (pick a South American country of your choice here), ignore dictatorships that commit outrages (Myanmar, Zimbabwe), topple those that didn't ask for our help (say Iraq 10 times fast), and punish dictatorships with popular support (say, Hello, Fidel)...need I go on?

Yet we don't have our own house in order. The world was dumb-founded at America's response to Hurricane Katrina. THAT, my friends, was the moment when the rest of the world realised that America was no longer a superpower, but rather a façade. Indeed, I spend a lot of my working life apologising for America

Our time is over; we've been fatally wounded by our own hand; while we're still standing, that fact merely reflects one of the laws of thermodynamics