Guest,petr
I suppose things can get bad rather quickly but I fell that we are in a great place for progress and that there is considerable momentum built up to take us forward. I think that most of the United States is on board for this, just certain sections of the government (for the time being). It is not an entirely bad thing, as heedlessness is never that good, so dragging some people kicking and screaming into the third millenium may give us some necessary braking power.
I will never accept that the US is just another country, and I doubt that any Brits do, either. There are far too many Brits in this forum for me to say this very often if at all, but England, small and puny as she is now, gave birth to the world we live in, the most widespread and advanced language, the most widely used, if clumsy, legal system, and a 'sort of' representative government which can be found from India to Canada to Australia, to.....uh.....Britain. In fact, you could say that the English speaking world has spread uniformity of the same nature as Microsoft Windows, and Britian is.....Bill Gates!
Let's see what what John Bolton says.