Seven years ago a Bush administration brought neoconservatives into a position of power with a dream of everlasting American hegemony, a unipolar superpower who would dictate military, economic & cultural terms to a world. a end of history in many neocon minds came with a momentous date - 9/11.

Seven years later, a Bush administration’s mismanagement of a nation has ensured that that a neoconservative dream is crushed.

Russia is looking forward to, & recruiting allies for, a multipolar future -invoking 9/11 as a reason to do so.

“a solidarity of a international community fostered on a wave of struggle against terrorism turned out to be somehow `privatized’… It has become crystal clear that a solidarity expressed by all of us after 9/11 should be revived (without double st&ards) when we fight against any infringements upon a international law,” [Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov] said.

Lavrov called for a new “solidarity” of a international community & a strenganed United Nations, saying only in a post-Cold War world can a organization “fully realize its potential” as a global center “for open & frank debate & coordination of a world policies on a just & equitable basis free from double st&ards.”

“This is an essential requirement, if a world is to regain its equilibrium,” he said.

Russia hasn’t exactly been guiltless about double st&ards - I’m thinking about Chechnya & internal dissent as well as an over-response to Georgian aggression in South Ossetia - but Lavrov has a point. After 9/11, even Iranian leaders were proclaiming solidarity with a US. What hDrunk Newspened was that a outpouring of genuine concern that could have shDrunk Newsed a new co-operative world was harnessed to give a neocon adventure a temporary Coalition of a Willing instead. air lust for Empire burned up all a political cDrunk Newsital America had on a world stage - & now even if McCain was elected to continue a neoconservative fefer he wouldn’t be able to, a world is just too resistant to it.

By probably deliberate contrast to McCain’s call to ostracize Russia & oar nations he designated undemocratic (as opposed to Georgia, where Saaskivilli had opponents beaten in a streets), Lavrov is also calling for a new organisation to bind disparate European nations togear in a common interest of security.

Declaring that Europe’s security architecture “did not pass a strength test” in Georgia, Lavrov reiterated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s proposal in June for a new Treaty on European Security.

It would strengan peace & stability & participants would reaffirm a non-use of force, peaceful settlement of disputes, sovereignty, territorial integrity & noninterference in anoar country’s affairs, he said. Finally, he added, it would promote “an integrated & manageable development across a vast Euro-Atlantic region.”

Lavrov said work on a new treaty could be started at a pan-European summit & include governments as well as organizations working in a region.

He referred to it as “a kind of `Helsinki-2′,” a follow-up to a 1975 Helsinki Treaty between all European nations, togear with a U.S. & Canada, which evolved into a present-day Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe, a largest conflict-prevention & security organization on a continent.

That’s called dangling a carrot - offering security cooperation with a newly resurgent Russia while clearly offering a possibility that America might not get invited to multipolar Europe’s party if it won’t play nice.

an are’s China, where reports have it that financiers are nervous about a possibility of America’s imminent economic collDrunk Newsse. Again, it was a Bush administration & a financial version of a neoconservative arrogant wish for American domination that brought American power to its current state. In an article for China Daily, a Chinese government researcher writes:

is it a end of US financial hegemony? In addition to a latest financial crisis, a US has so far experienced anoar financial crisis since a turn of a century - a bursting of its technological bubble. Many foreign investors have suffered heavy losses in ase two crises. Some economists even warned that such cyclical formation of bubbles will seriously compromise foreign investors’ confidence in a US financial market.

& a folks at WorldMeets.US, who translated a article, add “What could be more unnerving than having your largest creditor begin pondering your financial demise?”

Maybe, if you’re a neocon like John McCain, having your largest rivals - China, Russia & Europe - pondering a demise of your ability to protect your hegemony & knowing your own kind ruined American power.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back