Think Piece

Rob's Think Piece

On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from Britain and Democracy was born. Later, the United States Constitution was ratified by the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to establish a federal union of sovereign states and the federal government to operate that union. In the decades after the Second World War, the United States became a dominant global influence in economic, political, military, cultural, scientific and technological affairs. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it stands today as the world's sole superpower. Many thus call it a hyper power in order to indicate a differing world order from the politics of the Great Powers of the 19th and early 20th centuries and the superpowers that succeeded them during the Cold War.

There are politicians in the Executive and Legislative branches of the American government that continue to tell the American people that the threat to this nation's security and future of our democracy is worse now than in our entire history. Despite the growing pressures, the American people must endure, from the spread of Socialism in Europe, Radical Islam, and the threat of global terrorism after September 11th, this country will survive as the most powerful country in the world and will never be content with joining other second world countries as one of them.

Writing at the beginning of the 20th century, Lenin said that the slogan of a "United States of Europe" was either impossible or reactionary. As we see the enlargement process gather force within the EU, it is obvious that this is not impossible. The EU started with six members in 1952, increasing over the years to twenty-seven members in August 2007. More states are expected to join in the future. The European Union was established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union, or the Maastricht Treaty and in effect since November Of 1993. The European Union is an organization of countries that have decided to co-operate on a great number of areas, ranging from a single market to foreign policy, and from mutual recognition of school diplomas to exchange of criminal records. This co-operation is in various forms, officially referred to as three pillars: The three European Communities (EC, supranational); The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP, intergovernmental); The Co-operation in the Fields of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA, intergovernmental) The European Union : How Does It Work? Elizabeth Bomberg, Alexander Stubb

As the world enters a more global economy politics are sure to follow. The EU and the US share the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world, with the overall volume of EU-US trade in goods and services totaling $1200 billion in 2003. That is why the relationship between the United States and Europe constitutes the world's strongest, most comprehensive and strategically most important partnership. European Commission President Barroso, Brussels, 9 February 2005.

The European Union and the United States share common interests in developing coherent strategies in order to promote peace and stability, to create conditions for harmonious economic development in the wider world and to promote the stability of the international trade, financial and monetary systems, as well as the economic integration of countries in transition and developing countries. The United States and the European Union are steadfast partners in the fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and will undertake several new initiatives to strengthen the cooperation and coordination in this important arena, even as we enhance our ongoing efforts.

The truth of the matter is the European Union is of no threat to the United States of America. The European states, are struggling with their own problems and don't have the organization to form a threat to the United States. The European Union still lacks a constitution, and the centralized government to effectively mass an attack on the United States. Their economy is controlled by the US economy as we have already seen during the closing of the NASDAQ during the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks in NYC. The European states are burden by the over 400 percent inflation rate cause by the once currency, the Euro.

This vulnerability of the European Union has enabled the United States to negotiate treaties that are favorable to the US, and supportive of the EU to ensure, our position of dominancy in the global political arena.

Muslims believe that the Qur'an is the unadulterated word of God as revealed to Muhammad through the Archangel Gabriel. Islamic fundamentalism or Radical Islam is a religious ideology which advocates literalist interpretations of the sacred texts of Islam, Sharia law, and an Islamic State. Islamism is the totalitarian root of the problem; terrorism is only a symptom, an instrument of war used by Islamists to achieve their objectives. Islamism is not analogous to fascism or communism. Rather, it is a religious, political, and cultural framework that addresses the concerns of Muslims, serving as a more attractive alternative to past Arab ideological