U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nathan Barnes prepares to signal Capt. Jeremy Sorenson to taxi his F-16 Fighting Falcon block 30 aircraft for takeoff from Joint Base Balad, Iraq, June 8, 2010. Barnes is a crew chief with the 169th Maintenance Squadron, 169th Fighter Wing out of McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., and Sorenson is a pilot with the 370th Flight Test Squadron out of Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (DoD photo by Tech. Sgt. Caycee Cook, U.S. Air Force/Released)

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The day-to-day focus of the media on some individual problem or event cannot disguise the fact that the USA makes decisions from day-to-day on a piecemeal basis. It wins tactical victories with no clear strategic impact or lasting impact on regional stability. It reacts in the short-term, and U.S. grand strategy is little more than the chaos dictated by external events.

Rather than join the struggle of imperial rivalries, the United States could use its emerging power to suppress those rivalries altogether. The United States has grown and emerged quite suddenly, as a novel kind of ‘super-state,’ exercising a veto over the financial and security concerns of the other major states of the world.

“At the very moment that the number one nation has perfected the science of killing, It has become an impractical means of political domination.”

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