March 16, 2004

World Domination

According to recent surveys many think that the U.S. seeks world domination.

While this isn't huge news (meaning...we've heard this before), something in this article gave me pause to think:

"Europeans want to check our power," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. "There's considerable support for making the European Union as powerful as the United States."

This is an interesting statement. Considering that there has been a slight shift in the balance of power in the EU due to the new socialist government in Spain (directly related to the effects of terrorism) which will probably lead to passage of the EU's draft constitution, how concerned should the U.S. be at the emergence of the EU as a superpower? Is it too much of a stretch to believe that a "One Europe" will one day be our enemy (in more than just words)? Has terrorism started a string of events that will lead to the creation of a new superpower which might eventually challenge the power and possibly cause the downfall of the U.S.? ...or am I being too paranoid again?

Other interesting findings in this article:

-While support for the war on terrorism has dropped in many of those countries, it has increased in Russia — 73 percent approve — and is almost as strong there as in the United States.

-Ratings for the United Nations are relatively high in European countries, and low in the Muslim countries. Just over half in the United States, 55 percent, gave a favorable rating to the U.N.

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