Reply #3: I thought so. [View All]

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It coincides with my recent thinking about several news item including
those discussed. This stuff is never stated outright and you have
to kind of read the tea leaves to figure out what is going on. So,
it's always nice to find someone else thinking the same way. I would
mention the defiance of CARICOM and Latin America, the "Summer Pulse"
carrier deployment, the crumbling of the Iraq coalition, the crumbling
of Israel's war with the Palestinians, and the degradation of the
political situation in Central Asia as other indicators of US loss of
influence and efforts to paper that over and compensate for it. Of
course that is all speculative, but taken together, its hard to ignore.