Rats climbing aboard sinking ship

Predictable reactions from around the world to the Democratic victories in congress

In an extraordinary joint statement, more than 200 Socialist members of the European Parliament hailed the American election results as "the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world."

But...

There was also some concern that Democrats, who have a reputation for being more protective of U.S. jobs going overseas, will make it harder to achieve a global free trade accord. And in China, some feared the resurgence of the Democrats would increase tension over human rights and trade and labor issues. China's surging economy has a massive trade surplus with the United States.

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"The problem for Arabs now is, an American withdrawal (from Iraq) could be a security disaster for the entire region," said Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi analyst for the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. He said the Middle East could be left to cope with a disintegrating Iraq mired in civil war, with refugees fleeing a failed state that could become an incubator for terrorism.

First of all, as if the whole Middle East isn't an incubator for terrorism ?
But more importantly this reveals the mind set of the rest of the world, not toward the George Bush, but toward the United States, which is: the United States must be strong enough to power the world economy and strong enough to fix political and military problems anywhere in the world but deciding what is a problem and how it must be solved must always be done outside the United States.
Americans just don't have the deep, subtle yet humane minds of everyone else, you see.