A weakened United States could start retreating from the world stage without help from its allies abroad, an international strategic affairs think tank said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies<\/span> said President Barack Obama<\/span> would increasingly turn to others for help dealing with the world’s problems \u2014 in part because he has no alternative.<\/p>\n“Domestically Obama may have campaigned on the theme ‘yes we can’; internationally he may increasingly have to argue ‘no we can’t’,” the institute said in its annual review of world affairs.<\/p>\n
The report said the U.S. struggles against insurgent groups in Iraq<\/span> and Afghanistan<\/span> had exposed the limits of the country’s military muscle, while the near-collapse of the world financial markets had sapped the economic base on which that muscle relied.<\/p>\nThe report also claimed that the U.S. had lost traction in its efforts to contain Iran’s nuclear program and bring peace to the Middle East<\/span>.<\/p>\n“Clearly the U.S. share of ‘global power,’ however measured, is in decline,” the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, it’s not the first time “think tanks” have claimed the US’ significance was fading under Democrat rule; they said all the same things during the Carter years.<\/p>\n
And while there’s a good traditional conservative case to be made for staying uninvolved overseas, Franklin Roosevelt let that <\/em>genie out of the bottle three generations ago; anyway, it should be a matter of national consensus, not because administration-induced decay makes it impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obama promised to improve the US’ image around the world. Little did we know that he meant to do it by making the US appear weak and inconsequential: A weakened United States could start retreating from the world stage without help from its allies abroad, an international strategic affairs think tank said Tuesday. The London-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}