The Eclipse of the American Power and Clout Throughout the World

With the collapse of communism, the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war long time ago the need of American leadership has been weaned. With ten years almost passed since 9/11 the sympathy to the US has withered through history and the end of the Iraq war and occupation pulled the US out of the scene in the daily news. Afghanistan war still there but undoubtedly in its final stages where the work in progress to train and establish local police force and army and leave.

What has caused the eclipse of the American and US power is the world becoming an economic machine. What moves the world now is the economic powers and forces of gravitation. To add to the acceleration of the American loss of dominant clout is that in this very becoming competitive world huge stellar economic powers like in China and the south east had become forces that can't be ignored. In south America the country of Brazil is becoming more and more economic powerhouse.

When America wants to exert its political will on other countries they are usually nullified by economic powers and interests of such countries that become the deciding factor.
So America needs to realize how the political world landscape and play the amazing economic football and have many home-runs as possible.

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When I think of America’s failed financial policies, its weak political leadership and its feeble foreign policy I am reminded of an interesting Thai phrase: “Maa du khreuang bin tok.” Translated it means “A dog watching an airplane crash.” The phrase describes an event that is totally beyond the spectator’s comprehension.
I believe we are witnessing an historic eclipse of American power in the world. It has been ongoing for at least three decades, but it has accelerated dramatically in just the past couple of years. One might argue that the decline of U.S. power began with the nation’s ignominious withdrawal from Vietnam back in 1975–an event that I personally witnessed and experienced.

Do you seriously believe that China cares a whit about the U.S. economy? Or than Muslim nations such as Pakistan feel any allegiance to Washington’s political will?

We are becoming a nation of political wimps who are guided more by political correctness than correct political foreign policy. The idea that we can be everybody’s friend is a joke in a world where alliances are only important when they serve a nation’s economic and political self-interest. Does anybody really think that the imams and sheiks of the Middle East have any real affection for America? The same goes for nations like China, India and our closest neighbors–Canada and Mexico.

In his book, “The Much Too Promised Land,” Aaron David Mille tells of his years as a State Department official engaged in what is forlornly called the peace process. In his book he writes that in the Middle East today the United States finds itself “trapped in a region which it cannot fix and it cannot abandon,” where America is “not liked, not feared, and not respected.”

Is it any wonder that Muslims the world over despise a nation that has become narcissistic and hedonistic while growing more and more obsessed with sex, fame, wealth what passes these days as music.
Once, while traveling in Pakistan I was asked by a Muslim cleric why America allows women to be degraded, why it no longer esteems marriage and family and why it lavishes praise and wealth on entertainers, athletes and others who contribute little

http://ronaldyatesbooks.com/2011/02/the-eclipse-of-american-power/

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The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World

by Immanuel Wallerstein

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