There are many dangers in today's world. Most of these dangers stem from bad leadership rather than bad countries. The U.S. is a superpower that has great values and that is generally a good country for its citizens.

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I am not very informed about the Eastern European issues that made Russia stand up to the U.S. and NATO, but I can safely say that the world with a single superpower has not been that safe. I don't know if George W. Bush would have made his adventure into Iraq had the Russians been a force to reckon with or not, but I am sure that the White House and Pentagon would have had to think much harder about it before getting themselves into the mess they have.

For a long time, most people around the world had two contradictory views about the U.S. They liked America’s people, their values, their simplicity and their openness. People love to send their children to study in America because of its liberal arts colleges and universities and the general willingness of Americans to accept people of other cultures (because they themselves come from different backgrounds).

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The whole issue of word usage must be revisited. "Terrorism" (and the so-called war against it) has been overused and abused at the expense of innocent civilians. It is ironic that an Armenian woman in Iraq became the latest victim of an overzealous private security firm on the very same day that Congress voted to recognize what happened to the Armenians.

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At a time that world problems need an international leader, the single superpower in the world has been running away from a global leadership position. The hawkish and divisiveness of President Bush on political and environmental issues have alienated America in the eyes of the peoples of the world. But the upcoming U.S. elections provide an opportunity for a change. Can the next U.S. president also be a global president?

Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, people have been considering the fact that American citizens are really voting for a president whose powers and influences affect the entire globe. The failure of the Bush administration to honor the Kyoto treaty, its rejection of global warming, and its failure to convince the world to join it in an unnecessary war against Iraq have alienated the peoples of the world.

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