Europe ran the world for 400 or 500 years until the civilizational suicide of the two World Wars. And then America emerged as the world hegemon. Of course Europeans like to see the hegemon diminished, and Obama is the perfect man to do that.
There is a way America will decline -- if we choose first to wreck our economy and then to constrain our freedom of action through subordinating ourselves to international institutions which are 90 percent worthless and 10 percent harmful.
SPIEGEL: And there is not even 1 percent that is constructive?
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Europe ran the world for 400 or 500 years until the civilizational suicide of the two World Wars. And then America emerged as the world hegemon. Of course Europeans like to see the hegemon diminished, and Obama is the perfect man to do that.
Right-o.
There is a way America will decline -- if we choose first to wreck our economy and then to constrain our freedom of action through subordinating ourselves to international institutions which are 90 percent worthless and 10 percent harmful.
SPIEGEL: And there is not even 1 percent that is constructive?
Krauthammer: No.
Powww!
Not one to mince words or cabbages.
That's why his name is Krauthammer, and not Sauerkraut.
dat was die wurst
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