CAN THE UNITED STATES BE STOPPED?

In 2002, as the U.S. government was preparing to attack Iraq, one call (among many) was for actions: diplomatic, juridical, military and economic actions  to force the U.S. to abandon its drive for global domination.Despite clear and overwhelming opposition by the world’s peoples to the threatened attack, the national governments and their international organizations (UN, OPEC, Arab League, etc) were unwilling and/or unable to act forcefully against the United States. Because of their functional inability to prevent or halt the U.S. assault, and their continued ineffectiveness, It makes me wonder, can anybody, organization, or country have the capability of stopping the US in their actions? 

     I don’t neccesarilly mean military power, but overall US domination. They are number 1 in sports,entertainment, technology, marketing, diplomacy and military capabilities. They even have the power to punish other nations! No matter what you think, you have to praise them for being so capable and succesful, because they WORKED for it. Right now, the US can basically do anything, from waging a war to financially sanctiontion a country. Can she be stopped? What can be done to stop this American super-domination?

WORLD WITHOUT AMERICA

A viral ad produced by the British website, 18 Doughty Street, which imagines what “A World Without America” would be like is going down a storm on YouTube and across the blogosphere.

“A World Without America” would be a world “with less freedom,” “without many medical advances,” “without Israel”, “poorer” and one “held to ransom by tyrants” the video argues with the help of a series of spoof news bulletins from recent decades.

What do you think? Would “A World Without America” be a better or worse place? Could you even imagine such a world, so central is the country and its culture to our lives?

What else would “A World Without America” lack? The computer you are using now and its software, for example? Would we in Britain even be speaking English in such a world?

Or do you take the opposing view that “A World Without America” would be one without junk food, the worst of Hollywood, global warming and even al-Qa’eda?

Does the fact that America has been responsible for great advances mean that we can’t criticise its defects?  Many think America is over critisized, and countries such as Rusia and China would commite more atrocities than than the US if they had her power. Is the video well-timed and enlightening or obsequious and patronising?