Comment Re:US stewardship sucks less (Score 1) 193
I think you are underestimating the level of distrust there is for the US at the moment.
I don't think I am, actually. I have bent over backwards to make conciliatory gestures to the more extreme camps, pointing out at every turn that the current situation is not a good one even as I demonstrate how it remains preferable to the currently-known alternatives. I realize there is nothing I can do to satisfy the outright irrational elements out there, but where I see the possibility for reasoned discussion, I take it.
I can't really think of any entity I would trust less in the "can I trust them not to abuse this power in every way they can think of"-way (in the competence-sense, certainly).
Are you telling me that BRIC (Brazil/Russia/India/China) doesn't rush immediately to mind? Brazil and India might not be too problematic, but they're collaborating with a pair of outright dystopian regimes. The US has fallen far, but it still has a very long way to go before it would even belong in the same league as these.
As you stated, it is not like this is not deserved.
Actually, I would argue that this level isn't deserved. Like I said, there are degrees, and I pointed out why the alternatives are even less worthy of trust. When all options are bad, you go for the least terrible and fight to change it. In this case, that means the US.