I think this is a very important paragraph from the article:



"...Where Obama’s strategy is weakest is in reaching ordinary people: the networked web of human relationships that transmits rage, hatred, and despair or hope, trust, and loyalty. His doctrine that the US will use force to defend its “core interests,” but will mobilize others “to address broader challenges to international order,” is sound logic and good politics in a war-weary US. But, as a Syrian tweeted to me, what the world hears Obama saying is that the US will use force to avenge the deaths of two American journalists, but will stand by while 200,000 Syrians are slaughtered..."



And this has been the problem all along. It is very nice talking about "freedom" and "democracy", but as long as Americans and their allies push those values on their own terms (actually even without showing proper positive examples in their own societies), completely ignoring the reality of the actual people they are supposedly "helping", whose problems they are "solving", they will always remain the invaders, interfering forces, never truly gathering support.



Even the "coalition of today" is simply opportunistic, those supporting the US are doing it from very obvious selfish interest, this coalition will never hold, as soon as any of the conditions change on the ground it will fall apart.



Actually the title says all, as long as the US looks at the world this way, them, their "super-President" against, or leading the whole world, nothing will be achieved.

In a global, integral world there is no need for "super-nations", "super-leaders", in an integral system we need teamwork, cogwheels gelling together, mutually complementing each other.



And most importantly the action can not be based on self-interest, not even on mutual self-interest, but based on how to make the whole system work, prosper, survive, develop.



In a way, at the end of the day even this is important for the "self", since in today's global, integral world, where every individual, nation is fully dependent on everybody else, the individual can only succeed if the whole system works, and is stable.



Thus every negotiation, planning, action has to start from a clear vision of the whole system, and aimed at the benefit of the whole collective.