RSSCrouching America, Hidden Chinese Dragon, Part Two
Gene Lalor | February 11, 2010
Merriam-webster.com defines “crouch” as follows: intransitive verb 1 a : to lower the body stance especially by bending the legs b : to lie close to the ground with the legs bent 2 : to bend or bow servilely : cringe 3 : to stand at a low height transitive verb : to bow especially in humility or fear; bend
I posed a question at the end of Part One: “Is Obama’s crouching, bowing, and scraping to foreign leaders all part of our socialistic leader’s stated intent of wealth distribution not just to America’s needy but to the planet?”
Obviously, I don’t know the answer to that query. I can’t read the man’s mind, I can only judge him by his actions and words.
We do know, the world knows because we have seen it, that our president has an affinity for bowing to foreign leaders and potentates. Whether those actions merely reflect an innate humility–which is counterintuitive–or an abject sense of subservience–which is repugnant and unprecedented for an American president–is as yet unclear.
What we also know is that, despite his naïveté about the nuances of foreign relations, that Obama is a committed internationalist who implicitly trusts in the gentle graces of the most corrupt institution in the history of international bodies, the United Nations.
We know, too, that he inclines toward socialism and “sharing the wealth,” that wealth being the hard-earned wealth of Americans and America.
So, where do we go from here?
For the most part, history rather than the United States will determine the answer to that question and history has never been kind to nations, however powerful at one juncture, that demonstrate weakness.
Obama’s bowing, scraping, his servile, physical crouching is both symptomatic and emblematic of the decline and fall of America as we blithely accept what some are calling “China’s century” without making the efforts needed to maintain this century as another American century.
That last observation is not nearly as over-dramatized as it seems.
First, history is not on our side: Witness the decline and fall of dozens of more powerful empires than ours; their names, the Byzantines, the Ottomans, the Holy Roman Empire are the stuff of legend but at one point they ruled much of the known world.
Today, they are long gone.
Second, realities are not on our side: Witness the economic and political ascendance of the People’s Republic of China, 
a nation composed of 1.3 billion people or 20% of Earth’s inhabitants which now, almost suddenly, has climbed to the top of the economic and, hence, political heap.
China has become the world’s leader in coal, steel, cement, and automobile production, with the fastest growing cities on the planet, the second largest military budget, and an astounding $2.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and owns almost another trillion dollars in U.S. Treasury securities: http://bit.ly/apKTOp
Make no mistake, America is in trouble and the Chinese know it.
Where we go from here, how we extricate ourselves from this deepest doo-doo we have ever been stuck in, can be influenced by our government and people, however. Much of that extrication concerns how we interpret our crouching.
A crouching tiger, 
for example, is anything but a subservient beast; it is plotting its chances of success in an attack, gauging the dangers, estimating costs, (wounding or death), versus benefits, (eating and survival). That cost-benefit ratio is what America must now weigh.
Do we roll over and play dead or literally expire rather than confront what seems an inevitability? Or do we dig deep into America’s collective subconcious and summon those traits of courage and perseverence and diligence that enabled our nation to overcome all the odds against us and strive to re-gain our former pre-eminent status in the world?
Do we attempt to re-ignite the proud flame of Ronald Reagan’s shining city high up on that hill or do we crouch down in passive acceptance of our fate, our defeat?
The first step toward the light is for our leaders to stand up, tall, erect,and confident as a sign that we will not surrender without a monumental struggle.
The choice is ours. The Chinese serpent is also crouching, lying in wait for our next move. We have 2 opportunities, 2 next moves coming up, November 2, 2010 and November 6, 2012, when America gets the chance to right our slowly sinking ship.
They may be our last chances.
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