Global Stability - Economic As Well As

No Matter How Deeply Disturbing The Thought Of Using The Environment To Manipulate Behavior For National Advantages To Some, The Technology Permitting Such Use Will Very Probably Develop Within The Next Few Decades.

Shortly, The Public Will Be Unable To Reason Or Think For Themselves. They'll Only Be Able To Parrot The Information They've Been Given On The Previous Night's News.

America Has Exercised Its Power To Insist On Elections In Palestine, Which Hamas Did Win. Once They Won, We Then Engaged In A Policy Not Only Of Ostracism, But By Financial Boycott, In Effect Of Undermining It, And Creating More Tension And Radicalism And Poverty In Gaza, Which Was Susceptible To Exploitation By Hamas.

The Legitimacy Of The Leadership Depends On What That Country Thinks Of Its Leaders. When We Lay Off, More And More Iranians Tend To Be Critical Of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The More Abusive We Are And The More Pressure We Put On Them, The More Nationalism Fuses With Fundamentalism In Iran.

America Is The Only Superpower. But Our Leadership Is Being Tested In The Middle East, And Some Of The Things That We Have Done In The Middle East Are Contributing To A Potential Explosion Region-wide. And If That Explosion Gets Out Of Hand, We May End Up Being Bogged Down For Many Years To Come In A Conflict That Will Be Profoundly Damaging To Our Capacity To Exercise Our Power, To Address The Problems Implicit In This Global Awakening, And We May Face A World In Which Much Of The World Turns Away From Us, Seeks Its Own Equilibrium, But Probably Slides Into A Growing Chaos.