re: #503 HappyWarrior

The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a clear-eyed outlook that the world is not a “global community” but an arena where nations, nongovernmental actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage. We bring to this forum unmatched military, political, economic, cultural and moral strength. Rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we embrace it.

Let’s parse where this is wrong:
1. Not a global community: No matter what he tries, Europe is going to stick together. NATO may just become the name of the European force.
2. America is smaller, economically, than Europe.
3. Just because you want the world to be at each other’s throats, it doesn’t make it that way. On the flip side, just because there are actors that want to divide the world, doesn’t mean everyone wants it.