Is the US just a paper tiger?

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JerusalemPost.com:

Our country may have reached the point when we, like so many great nations before us, are no longer the leading state of our time.

The evidence of our decline is everywhere, but nowhere is it more apparent than in the way we are being treated by other countries. Some of our allies, including Canada, Holland and Spain, have left or are leaving us in the lurch in Afghanistan, withdrawing their troops. Many states, including our allies, have sought to embarrass us diplomatically. The trip that President Barack Obama took recently to the Pacific Rim was an example of that. He was rebuffed by countries large and small. Most media observers called his journey a fiasco of sorts.

There was a time when the US military said it was capable of fighting two and a half wars at the same time. Today, as a result of being bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, we probably are unable to fight a third war, and our enemies know it.

LAST SPRING, North Korea sank a South Korean navy ship, killing 46 South Korean sailors. The US is an ally of South Korea with 28,000 troops in that country. We’ve always been told that those troops are there as a trip wire, so that North Korea would know if it attacked South Korea, it would be attacking the US in the same way that an attack on one NATO country would be seen as an attack upon all NATO members. North Korea has paid no price for its sinking of the South Korean ship and, just as bad, no price for its recent unprovoked artillery bombardment of a South Korean island which resulted in the deaths of two South Korean soldiers and two civilians and injuries to 15 others.