Armstead
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Thu Oct-20-05 07:27 PM
Response to Reply #103 |
104. We could regain legitimacy -- but we've lost leadership status |
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Edited on Thu Oct-20-05 07:27 PM by Armstead
I think it's possible for a legitimate adminisytration to undo some of the damage done by this crew. But I do think we've lost our leadership status once and for all.
For a bunch of macho, posturing he-men and he-women, this administration has managed to accomplish the exact opposite of what they set out to do.
Instead of making America more powerful, they have made us weaker in both fact and perception. We are well on our way to losing our status as the world's economic leader, and through their military misadventures, that have made the US LESS scary to the rest of the world. Iraq shows us to be a paper tiger.
Maybe we'll adjust to being a second-rate nation. Maybe it'll even be good for us. But it's amazing how those who have tried to make us arrogent have accomplished just the opposite.
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