Genocidal Defeat: How Fear of Acknowledging the Obvious Reveals the Folly of the World's Lone Super Power.

~ My Comment on Bob Franken's piece "Turkey Turkeys" on Huffington Post ~

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-franken/turkey-turkeys_b_68985.html

Bob, I think the rude awakening for Americans of all political persuasions is that, thanks to the Bush Administration and an enfeebled Democratic Party ... the United States has moved from Lone Super Power to nearly irrelevant in the eyes of the World.

The Putin visit to Iran is telling. There is no way Putin would have allowed himself to be seen as standing with the Iranians against American intentions, if he hadn't read the tea leaves of World opinion and seen America has lost her standing and the World is looking for new leaders.

The current pathetic state of the American Democracy and the seeming inability of the American people to direct their country's leaders sends a strong message to the peoples of the world yearning to be free ... American Democracy is a Failure.

What messages have we sent to the World?

America's Military supremacy is a myth. The image of the United States' overwhelming Military capacity was re-established by BUSH41 during the Gulf War ... now we are seen as overhyped, overextended, and incapable of handling a mission without hiring Contractors, and raiding our National Guard to the point of destroying their capacity to meet their domestic mission ... Pathetic

Abuse, Fraud and Ponzi Schemes masquerading as Capitalism have metastasized through the economy like a cancer turning America's Prosperity Model into a sham.

We have a Health Care System that is a failure for Americans and a National Security risk.

We have an Educational System that doesn't produce citizens that can compete in the World Economy.

New Orleans destroyed by Katrina and allowed to rot.

As a Nation the US has abandoned the notion of Human Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Common Sense.

It would probably have been best if a vote on this Bill could have been postponed, but here it is and we lose anyway we go with it at this point.

Bottomline, Mr. Franken, if the United States weren't in such a dramatically pathetic state we wouldn't be arguing whether or not this is the correct time to define the Armenian Genocide as a Genocide.