For Bushites who Say we Don't Need the Rest of the World

I'll be damned if they're not taking you up on it.

Look at this article on Political Cortex about the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and suddenly Chimpy's Asia trip, Murtha's recent statements ("The only people that want us in Iraq are Iran, al Qaeda, and China"), and the US getting kicked out of Uzbekistan all make more sense.

For the inevitable question, "Why would half of the world's population enter into an economic and military alliance without the United States?", my response is, "Given our behaviour over the past five years, why wouldn't they?"