What makes anyone think the rest of the world will let Bush have his way?

[devilgrrl]

The rest of the world is onto The Bush Crime Family (La Famiglia Criminale di Bush). What makes anyone think that the world is just going to sit back and watch it happen without acting against us in the same way the world acted against Nazi Germany? Especially if he's "selected" again? I cannot stress how much damage he's done to the reputation of our country.

[sui generis]

1. unfortunately, when we engage in sanctions against

countries whose leaders we dislike, it is the people of those countries who pay the economic price.

When the rest of the world starts sanctions against the shrub, it is us folks who will pay the price. Well you know grrl - what was the Euro trading at when you got back? It could get a whole lot worse.

[devilgrrl]

3. That's only going work to a certain point eventually...

because everyone is sick of it. If I were a citizen of a country other than the US, I'd applaud sanctions - what better reason not to spend money on US goods.

[democratreformed]

2. I have been thinking this very same thing for quite some time.

One of these days, someone WILL act. I feel quite certain of it.

[lefador]

4. Three words:

Nuclear freaking power.... that is the only reason why the world tolerates the US right now. That and the fact that dollars were the defacto trading currency. With the Euro in the block, it is no longer the exclusive trading currency so the US is no longer able to issue debt against the dollar in the same manner. However the repugs seem to not have gotten the memo. With a destruction of the production based economy of yesteryear, and the constant shift to an economy of services the US is like an emperor with no clothes: We do not produce anything... we are moving toward a "Walmartized" society of minimum wage drones. Problem is, minimum wage drones have very little acquisitive power. This makes the US lose one of its main assets to the world: a big affluent market of consumers.

In the end Bush is bad for business, he has only catered to one sector: the military-industrial complex. However in the end even those folks are small potatoes when compared to the real people behind the scenes: the money markets. And Bush is awful for them, everyone who put their money into dollars knows they ain't getting their money back with a country that just went $400+ billion in the red and who doesn't give a shit about paying it back. In the end the real people behind the scenes will take care of Bush. There is no honor among thieves, and Bush is bitting far more that he can chew. As bad as the Bush Criminal family, they are really small potatoes when it comes to real power brokerage.

[devilgrrl]

5. BFD... that's not going to stop anyone whose had enough.

What are the Bush Crime Family going to do? Destroy the world?

[Nimrod]

6. We've got the weapons

Be they conventional or social weapons. And worse, we've proven we'll use them without provocation. We're touchy, violent, and WAY too big for our britches. It would take the combined might of the rest of the world to get us under control, and we'd probably blow up the whole planet before we let that happen anyway.

[ladjf]

7. While you weren't specific in your prediction, I believe you are

suggesting that other Countries are capable of serious retaliation
against the U.S. if they feel sufficiently threatened by our obvious
imperialistic behavior.

It would be a mistake for America to simply say that since we are the strongest military power on Earth, we can do anything we want without
being challenged. There are dozens of other Nations with the capability of producing and deploying nuclear weapons against us in massive and disastrous ways.

Currently Bush is spouting some nonsense about, "Go ahead and fire your missiles. We will shoot them down". What a bad joke!

What would be do about a couple of cruise missile shot from the deck of a tramp freighter, 50 miles off shore from any point on either of our coasts? How about a sub, 5 miles offshore. It surfaces, launches a missile that reaches the target in 45 seconds. Think about that.

All of our anti-missile strategy was based on the assumption that only Russia would attack us. Now,it's a whole new ball game. But, a Russian
threat isn't beyond a possibility.

There is no physical defense for that type of threat. The only defense is through political, social, economic and philosophical communications of the kind that would make terrorist strikes against us undesirable and pointless. (That's no easy tasks either. But, at least there's hope.)

[catmandu57]

8. I don't know

There has been speculation that they will bomb Iran using the excuse of nuclear weapons being developed there. Given their lies to get into Iraq, I can't see how the world will let the chimp* get away with it, there has to be some form of punishment for being a swaggering bully.