Often I'm inundated with left-wing liberal media, so it's refreshing to get a different point a view even if I don't entirely agree with it....great article by Robert D. Kaplan
The United States is not a traditional empire because it has no
colonies, but its military -- and the diplomatic power that accompanies
it -- is deployed in an imperial-like fashion worldwide. The U.S. Navy
calls itself
a global force for good. That claim would pass the
most stringent editorial fact-checking process. Without that very naked
American ambition, which allows the Navy and the Air Force to patrol
the global commons, the world is reduced to the sum of its parts: a
Japan and China, and a China and India,
dangerously at odds
and on the brink of war; a Middle East in far wider war and chaos; a
Europe neutralized and emasculated by Russian Revanchism; and an Africa
in even greater disarray. It is not that regional powers cannot act
rationally on their own; it is only that without a global hegemon of
sorts, local balance-of-power interactions become more fraught with risk
and are, therefore, more dangerous.
READ MORE HERE....
http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/05/15/the_gift_of_american_power.html
