Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
If that's what you say, then then you'd better go out and stop them. I shall observe with keen interest and no little amusement.

The world has changed, and "the Western world" - even if it functioned as a single entity, which it doesn't - no longer has the capacity to impose its will on everybody else whenever it chooses to do so, or to decree and enforce rules on what others may or may not do. Acknowledging that reality requires a bit of courage, of course, along with a bit of realism.

Leaping into action with a plan that has a minimal chance of success and a very high probability of adverse unintended consequences crosses the frequently vague line between courage and stupidity.

What, by the way, is "the easy way"?
Yes the world has indeed changed.

It reminds one of when the British Empire ran out of steam. They also came up with a good number of reasons why this and that were no longer possible and could not be done. (They had the excuse that they had lost the top end of their gene pool during the two world wars.)

Now as part of the recent changes we see an exhausted US willingly giving up its sole superpower status and sliding backwards into the group of major powers. (There is an excuse for this?)

I guess the definition of courage in the new US is Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.