Originally Posted By: Halo82
Mostly they advocate America's supremacy.


Self-preservation is a harsh mistress sometimes. Look, you're deluding yourself if you think the United States is the only nation that places itself at the top of the list. Every country, from the most ideological Eurotopia to the most backward Third World regime, at some point looks at themselves and their own way of life as superior. Even if they derive their superiority from a lack of what's been called "drum-beating jingoism" (which is kind of like saying you're better than everyone else because of how humble you are).

The fact is that any nation that isn't looking to advance itself beyond its neighbors and rivals is already doomed to failure. Any contrived notions of false "humility" or "anti-nationalism" perpetuated by Guilty White Liberals™ run counter to our sense of self-preservation as a people. Unless that's what you want... hmmm...

The difference is that from the perspective of sovereignty - the ability of a nation to enact the will of its people within and beyond its borders - the United States is still the leading world power. It's a funny quirk of numerology that there is ALWAYS a number one, always a first place. And whether you like it or not, there will always be a leading world power. If it weren't us it'd be someone else. My question to you is, if people shouldn't be "advocating America's supremacy", whose supremacy should they be advocating? I've heard plenty of people in this forum piss and moan about what a shitty job the United States has done as a leading world power, but I have yet to hear a viable alternative. (Imagine that.)

So tell me - who should be running the show here? Who should decide what goes on in Iraq or Iran or northern Africa or south Asia? Certainly you have an answer for us. Maybe the same sort of solution as getting rid of taxes and just printing more money. I'm eagerly awaiting your solution to a similarly thorny problem - I doubt you'll even break a sweat fixing this one.

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