Alles reine Dankbarkeit fuer Security

Miesespeter , Dienstag, 11.12.2007, 07:02 (vor 6191 Tagen) @ kicker

skurril ist, dass der Amiverbraucher die letzten Jahre noch
dafür gelobt wurde, die Weltkonjunktur am laufen gehalten zu haben.
Jetzt wissen wir, dass der Exportweltmeister auch hier als Mäzen gewirkt
hat.

Skurril?
Das ist hoechstoffizielle Strategie.
Da braucht man think tanks fuer, um das zu entwickeln, und steel tanks, um das in Gang zu halten.....
Aber nicht zu vergessen, wir bekommen doch auch viel zurueck!
Was genau?
Na, security!
The Pentagons new map

Hier der Schwanengesang:

Our economic footprint is equally skewed. As our consistently huge trade deficit indicates, we also tend to live well beyond our economic means. Basically, we count on the rest of the world to finance our sovereign debt, which most countries - like Japan - are willing to do because the U.S. government is such a good credit risk, and the dollar is the closest thing there is to a global reserve currency. There is not a whole lot we should complain about in this deal - basically trading pieces of paper for actual goods. Put these two transactions together and it is easy to see why the United States has benefited from the rise of a global economy.

So what has the United States provided the world in return? Clearly we are a leader in technology and cultural exports, but these are fundamentally private-sector transactions that any advanced economy can provide.

The one U.S. public-sector export that has only increased its global market share with time is security. We account for nearly half the global public spending on security, and unlike any other state, we actually can export it to other regions on a substantial and continuous basis. And that is our fundamental transaction with the global economy: We import consumption and export security.

Sharing our surplus of security with the world is what makes us unique. Any advanced industrial state can sell arms, but only the United States can export stability. Yes, it does engender plenty of anger from some quarters, but from far more it elicits real gratitude - and allowance for our "living large.

Beyond containment
During the Cold War, our policy vis-à-vis the Soviet Bloc was one of containment. The Globalization Era presents a different challenge: The Non-Integrating Gap does not just need to be contained, it needs to be shrunk. Doing so will take decades, however, and in the meantime we need to "firewall" off the Core from the Gap's worst exports: terrorism, narcotics, disease, genocide, and other violent disruptions.

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