[Trumanator]

This is so fun.


I will concede that my info about the ice caps was in passing, I probably shouldn't have stated it as fact. However, the reason the US is the presumed world leader has a lot more to do with the realities of economics and world peacekeeping than arrogance. The US is still the worlds largest economy I think, and provides the vast majority of forces to any kind of peacekeeping operation that the UN orchestrates. I don't know what you think but as far as my limited knowledge of other governments goes I think that you could describe the current French, Italian, and German governments as somewhat "pro-american" to use the media phrase. Not to mention that I have yet to see a useful idea come from the international community as far as terrorism goes. The main idea seems to be capitulate and hope they leave us alone.

The "Bush Doctrine" question was crap. Charlie Gibson himself got it wrong. The very inventor of the phrase has explained how there have been FOUR different versions, and that the current iteration is the "spread democracy" philosophy.