Can America ever regain it's high ground after Iraq, Middle East, Israel, N.Korea and Bush?
955838
No one could NOT change his mind unless he has no mind.\n Occupying other people by force is losing policy in the past and now and has no future.
904065
sorry to say we can't... we've f'd up iraq so much now, we have to maintain a presence there for many years to come.
727468
A country can't maintain what they don't have.  Presige has been gone in the world since the Clinton administration when the world was laughing at our former president's sexual behavior.\n\nWhat has happened since has just brought it further downhill.\n\nAmerica would regain prestige if we won the war, but how do you win this kind of war?  I'm not holding my breath.\n\nBest Wishes,\n\nSue
212218
I am afraid that it will never be over. Bush is going to pull troups out of Iraq this year to help repuglicans get elected, but then they will be back someplace like Iran, or North Korea. 3 years and we get rid of the sob, unless he declares himself King for life, which in that case there will be a civil war right here.
978823
Yes and you can bet UN resolutions would get reinforced, instead of the present UN leader that has no backbone and will not take a stand!!!!! Bush does what is right not what is popular and that is what the UN needs!!!!
291623
No what I do think it will destroy America. Just look at how far downhill we have come since the repuglicans took power, we are on the verge of world war III, in debt to the Chinese, giving away nuclear technology, involved in a stupid war in Iraq. Got a president that don't know how to tell the truth, favors the oil company's and the rich while leaving the poor and middle class behind. It is a real mess that I am not sure that we can recover from very easily.
418695
It shouldn't have been there's to free anyway....but at least dividing up jerusalem would be a start.\n\nI think that the USA will try their best to become a superpower...look at what is happening in Zimbabwe and Sudan....nothing is being done to help all those people who are slaughtered on mass because what are they going to get out of it?\n\nBy invading Iraq they got control or tried to of the oil...that would put alot of people under thier mercy.\n\nI'm not anti-american at all, the people are great but the administration isn't....they need to realise that they can't control everything...Iraq was an islamic country that shouldn't have been messed with....look at the people now....if they wanted to overthrow Saddam they would have.\n\nIn terms of life after death so to speak....i believe life has three stages....pre-birth, life, and the after life....life tests you and determines what Allah (SWT) will provide for you in the after life.\n\nHope that helps
364443
yes and no. the yes part is that they definitly need help rebuilding, and if you remember that the US  spent 7 years rebuilding Japan after Hiroshima and Nagaski. and look at japan today. the U.S is the richest country in the world and Japan is second and Germany, another country that the U.S helped rebuild, is third. so the countries that the U.S helps rebuild are doing very well, thank you very much. the downside is that innocent civilans are being killed, and i dont support that at all.
765222
Kinda, yes.  If the military was used to its full potential, the Mid East would be a wasteland by now.  It is limited and hampered by political interests.  In terms of power, our military is unstoppable.  If we were to ignore all political interest, our military is frighteningly powerful.
1109732
Any other answer would be idiotic speculation.The only result for sure will be more dead americans and Iraqis!Get real .This is the middle east.these countries have been fighting for hundreds of years!
720641
There are still 2 Superpowers in the world the usa and the REST OF THE WORLD\nAmerica it is time to wake up to the fact that not everyone in the world loves you as your President (warmonger) would have you believe\nYour country is more a threat to world peace than any other \nand yes we are raising more than eyebrows\nWill it be good for you NO the sooner you get rid of Bush the better if you wait until the elections many think it could and will be TOO LATE
800855
I agree with some of your other answerers, we're not a laughingstock.  Other countries are alarmed, and probably quite disgusted and disappointed as well, but they're not laughing.\n\nThe first step to returning to respectability probably won't ever happen, but it should.   Our leaders need to 'reach out'--issue a statement, or meet individually with other heads of state--and tell the world that we are going to make things right.  Ask for help to resolve Iraq.  Display a little humility, instead of barrelling on down the same old arrogant path we've been on.  Give the world a reason to believe we understand our own culpability in our current mess, and how big an impact it has had on our allies.\n\nThen, we need to clean house.  Investigate ourselves.  Bring the light of open scrutiny into the decisions this administration has made, and the actions that are questionable.  If there were laws broken, we need to show the world that we won't accept that from our leaders.  Then, and only then, in my opinion, can we make any claims to integrity.
672922
There can only be a peaceful Iraq when all of the world steps forward to help them. The UN has destroyed this country by the way it was handled before the war. The U.S. took a stand against a very Evil leader. It is curious that the international Human rights groups have only bad things to say now about the U.S., but not a peep about how Saddam treated the Iraq people while he was in control. the Iraq people need a boost to get started from all of us , including their neighbors, before they can realize peace. It is unfortunate that some of their neighbors will do anything to stop any peace. The Americans can only do so much. The fear of the terrorist stops progress in Iraq. The burden of the peace lays mostly on the new government of Iraq and support from it's neighbors for peace in the area.
68592
I think that this question is totally irrelevant. If Iran( or any muslim nation against USA)  builds nuclear facilities (civilian or military) americans will destroy that country (only becoz they c them as a threat).\n\nI think that america's common sense has been permanantly crippled by bin laden. Post 911 America views the whole world suspiciously (except their slaves in UK and friends in Israel). America has ever since been contradicting themselves. Remember the war in iraq, it was fought bcoz bush claimed to have evidence of non existent weapons and the threat of a dictator.My question to the world is "If iraq , y not pakistan?". Mushy's a dictator and one who openly admits to having nuclear weapons.\n\nI predict that soon the patience of the international community will run out. A grand alliance (Russia, China , France , India and the Arab world) could be formed so that america and americans will exist only in history textbooks.
99848
depends on who has the white house in 2008. We don't have the manpower to do it now, and if we did, our commitment to the middle east will be more like 20-30 years longer
701723
Yes. Bush further destabilized one of the most important regions on the planet. Big time. And the Middle East will stay in chaos for decades. Until we leave and the Iranians with their nuke take control of the region.\n\nThe dumbest unilateral US foreign policy move ever. And we ain't seen nothin yet.
419626
No, we certainly don't have the answers to improve the world. We need to start right here in our own country & elect better leaders & try to get America back on track. How are we going to build an Iraqu government when we can't even take care of our own problems?