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Tom Rinaldo

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2. Whether the American people want to continue to support being a global policemen is one issue

Reply to leveymg (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 9, 2013, 11:29 AM

Sep 2013

Whether other world powers including allies as you say want to acquiesce to direction from us or increasingly would rather determine how our capacities are directed is yet another. For both reasons the U.S. is no longer sitting in the drivers seat for better and for worse.

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There is no world order. The last one died in Iraq [View all] Tom Rinaldo Sep 2013 OP

Far from being the world's policeman,our policies toward Syria have been the result of being bullied leveymg Sep 2013 #1

Whether the American people want to continue to support being a global policemen is one issue Tom Rinaldo Sep 2013 #2

Our role goes only so far as we can be cajoled w/an outdated and dangerous self-image of omnipotence leveymg Sep 2013 #3

That is my conclusion also Tom Rinaldo Sep 2013 #4