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ARTelevision, if the USA is pragmatically self-interested, and doesn't take a long term perspective, others will be short-term pragmatic, and attempt to destroy the USA before it can destroy them. I mean, it is in the short-term best interest of the USA to have the middle east under its heel, shipping oil to to feed the military industrial complex.
Long-term practical self interest of the USA, meanwhile, looks a fuck of alot like being an internationalist. A massive chunk of American power comes from the freely given consent of the world: squandering that good will is killling peter to save paul.
If you don't want people thinking their best hope for a better life is to tear down the USA, you got to give them a better hope.
And the international community isn't "hamstringing" the USA in Iraq. They are just not helping. Has France, Germany, or even China fired a gun at American troops? Refusing to cooperate with a war they believe was justified with lies is not hamstringing.
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