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Old 09-25-2008, 03:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The European Union is gaining power every day in different ways while the US is losing power every day in different ways. This equation when including China would surely foretell the story that either Europe will become incredibly powerful and the last empire on earth until they have enough power to transfer the power to the people of the globe.

The American version of globalisation is using force and war and at the same time grabbing as many advantages for them self as they can is simply over. People are starting to realize this in the age of information that American foreign ignorance cannot go on

The failure in Iraq demonstrates all this and was the tide of the turn where America went from being popular and prosperous to being unpopular and unpopular and evil. This means that the only choice Americans have if they want to be prosperous is not give a damn about the opinion of most people and become an invading superpower.

European power and influence is growing but Europeans are growing a different type of "soft power", which means that Europeans have much more or will have much more influence around the world than America (if they dont already). The strongest advoicate for American values is Europe and they are more successful at creating stable democracies around the world than Americans have been.

Now what are the Americans doing? They are in a quagmire to turn Afghanistan into a democracy but failing even in such a small country! So before finishing the job in Afghanistan they choose to go to Iraq for another failure. The failures goes on, just look at South America where the US has forced plenty of bad leaders and dictators into power the last 50 years.

So what are Americans doing wrong? What are the Europeans doing right?
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