America: We Have Lost Our Respect and Credibility in the Eyes of the World

We Used to Be Treated with a Measure of Respect and Trust. We've Lost That, But.. It's Not Too Late to Get it Back

America once stood in the eyes of the planet, as a beacon of hope, and a place that held to a very high set of values. We were respected for this, even when not liked. Looking back over the last 20 years, America's place as the most respected nation on earth has eroded. This is patently obvious in the way we are treated now by other countries, and even terrorists.

Is it deserved, this loss of esteem and trust? Yes. Not only have we lost our moral compass, we are apparently indifferent to anything but the pursuit of affluent living and self-gratification. We are rotting from within, from a corruption of our most basic values. Just witness the variety of ways we have lost ground.

In Washington D.C., for several administrations, graft, corruption, and vote buying have been a fact of life. It escalated during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, when every petroleum lobbyist, got huge deals brokered for a piece of the Caspian/Siberian oil fields. And benefited enormously from our being in bed with the House of Al Saud. The Abramoff Scandal is merely one piece of the enormous amount of money/vote brokering that is endemic to Washington power politicking.

As I've written in my articles 9-11: Deception, there is a direct link between the attacks on September 11th and the petro lobbying in Washington. This was much less a failure of our intelligence people, and much more a total and ruthless disregard for anything but personal gain. 3,000 souls died that day, in part because of repeated tamping down of vital intelligence input.

The other reason anyone dared attack us on our own soil is because they knew their targets well. They know we are a self indulgent, morally bankrupt nation at the very highest levels of wealth and power. And ordinary good and faithful Americans suffered for it. And we still continue to suffer in many ways, both large and small.