Haters gotta hate

When one looks at international relations today it is something like observing a Shaolin Monk of Bruce Lee's stature coming down from the mountain monastery to interact with the global 'villagers'. Granted, a few others know martial arts, such as Russia, China, England etc. This doesn't however change the fact that we are by far the baddest dude in the dojo. We hear countries like North Korea and Iran talkin' some pretty serious trash, one would almost think they wanted to fight. Fact of the matter is though that no one wants to fight us. Occasionally one sees our raw might demonstrated in a massively epic ass whopping, followed by an occupation that can be likened to a debilitated karate move that leaves the recipient prostrate; capable of flailing and injuring themselves, but rendered relatively harmless against the attacker (say uncle!). Now I'm no 'might makes right' sort of thinker here, and the ends never justify the means, but we gotta accept the fact, for better or worse, we are at the pinnacle of world military power. All our nearest competitors just trade like mad with us, try to steal the secrets of our weapons and dream of the day they can actually hold their own in the field against our invincible legions. This is how the hand has been dealt, we might as well concede that we have been dealt a Royal Flush. The thing about having a hand like that is, you know everyone else if bluffing. Since we are essentially the Martial Arts masters of planet Earth, we have a great responsibility. Methinks we must behave like the head Abbot at the Shaolin Temple- with prudence, compassion and authority. Now there is always going to be some haters, it is just how human emotions seemed to be wired, and we're going to have to deal with this. The Iranians have their antagonism down to an art, hell, they make mosaics of tile in English denouncing us. But you'll notice it says 'down with USA' not 'we're going to take down USA'... they may be boisterous, but they aren't delusional. They know they can't actually hang with Bruce Lee in a Shaolin Showdown.