US INSPIRES COMPETITION

Competition. They always say it's good for capitalism but how is it for world powers? America has had a free run of planet Earth (for the most part) since the Soviet Union crumbled under it's own weight back in the late 80s/early 90s. Generally speaking, we haven't been too dickish (although I wish we had been more isolationist since we had plenty of problems at home to be dealing with--and still do), but since the Neo-Cons were able to get control of the White House (all according to their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNAC|Plan for a New American Century]) America, it seems, has been excessively dickish. This isn't (just) my opinion, ask the India, China and Russia who, according to [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1386812.ece|a February 15, 2007 article] at http://TimesOnline.co.uk, are meeting to form an alliance to stand up against American domination. Here's a cutting from said article:

India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world's population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War. Foreign ministers from the three emerging giants met in Delhi yesterday to discuss ways to build a more democratic "multipolar world". It was the second such meeting in the past two years and came after an unprecedented meeting between their respective leaders, Manmohan Singh, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin, during the G8 summit in St Petersburg in July. It also came only four days after Mr Putin stunned Western officials by railing against American foreign policy at a security conference in Munich. The foreign ministers, Pranab Mukherjee, Li Zhao Xing and Sergei Lavrov, emphasised that theirs was not an alliance against the United States. It was, "on the contrary, intended to promote international harmony and understanding", a joint communiqué stated.

Of course, that last bit can only be achieved by providing a counter balance to America's weight in the world. Of course, those countries might have realized that Globalism is favoring western countries like America and on behalf of their own country's corporations they want a bigger piece of that Globalist pie. If that's the case, I'm concerned we'll enter a new dark ages here on Planet Earth. You don't expect corporations to look out for what is in our best interests do you? Hm, I really hope these guys just want to counter-balance us. We could use it, in my opinion...absolute power corrupt, as they say...

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