Volume I No. 53
 02-12-03
 America - The Cowboy Republic 
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2003

 They hate us it seems.

 The United States of America. The self-proclaimed leader of the
 Western World. The land of liberty. Where are all men are created
 equal. And there is liberty and justice for all.

 At least according to the current rhetoric.-- Just ask President Bush.

 But all across Europe there is a startling rise in anti-Americanism.
 The recent trend, perhaps had its genesis in Germany when during
 his election campaign Gerhard Schroeder broke ranks with the
 political opposition and boldly stated his disquiet with American 
 arrogance and militarism. The current conflict with Iraq apparently 
 brought it all so keenly into focus for Herr Schroeder.

 It definitely seems Chancellor Schroeder struck a chord with the
 German populace and with lookers-on from elsewhere in Europe
 and Great Britain. But where is this all coming from? -- This bitter 
 dispute of consciousness with the United States.

 Perhaps it all comes down to human nature. Forget the actual 
 political situation in the world for a moment. The United States 
 is the sole world superpower. And this plays into the political 
 insecurities that exist - especially in Europe and Asia. Without 
 the balancing act that was de regure when the old Soviet Union 
 was a constant menace to the welfare of Western Europe. America
 itself, is now viewed as a threat. -- Merely because it so undeniably 
 powerful a nation. And unchallenged. Not only in the military 
 sphere, but economically and culturally as well. And despite the 
 nascent existense of the "United States of Europe," as the European 
 Union is sometimes called. 

 This anti-Americanism is only heightened by an administration 
 where the American leader is viewed as arrogant, unilateralist
 in his politics, and not too bright -- to place a fine point upon it.

 The Europeans, the British, and the Asians, for that matter, have 
 never taken to George Bush. They don't like him. And Bush only 
 obliges his detractors, and further reinforces his cowboy image 
 when he makes "unilateralist" statements such as proclaiming Iraq, 
 Iran, and North Korea, as part of an "Axis of Evil." --- One of the 
 most startling political blunders in recent history. A gaffe that will 
 be dicussed in political science essays for many an administration
 to come.

 --And look where that mindless declaration has gotten Bush!

 The conflict with Iraq will have its denouement. And hopefully 
 America will not be trapped in a Vietnam-like quagmire. Or in a 
 militarily-indelicate situation where we are seen by the entire 
 world as imperialist aggressors. -- With no end to an Iraqi 
 occupation in sight.

 Kim Jong II will back down. And stop this suicidal game he is
 playing. A misguided ploy that may well backfire horribly against
 him. For the sake of his own survival he must allow the nations 
 of the world -- led by the United States to feed his starving 
 masses of people. 

 These two crises will be no more. And the true America will be 
 left standing for all to see. 

 We are not Hitler's Germany - responsible for the murder of six 
 million Jews. We are not Stalinist Russia where countless numbers
 of innocents were slaughtered. We are not Belgium. Where under
 King Leopold's authority, at least 10 million Congolese were worked 
 to death so that the monarchy could profit from the theft of the
 natural wealth of an entire African nation.

 We are not even Great Britian. Who dropped her unwanted on
 the shores of a far-away continent. And left them there without 
 so much as a care, as to the devastating effect on the native people 
 who called that continent home.

 In the half-century that the United States has existed as a dominant
 world power we have committed no such crimes, on as grand a
 scale. And with such planning and forethought.

 Our friends across the waters are well aware of this. We are 
 not the "enfant-terrible" of superpowers that their harsh words 
 proclaim.

 But as the sole remaining military giant. We desperately need 
 political leadership that is more astute at wielding the one big 
 stick that remains in the world. Mindless unilateralism and cowboy 
 rhetoric only serves to create more enemies for our nation, than 
 a generation's worth of smart bombs and high-tech weaponry could 
 ever hope to defeat.
 

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