With Great Power Comes...

AITOOW who wonders how we came to accept this maxim and how responsibility has become synonymous with bribery? We have to bribe other countries to not attack us. We have to bribe them not to pollute. It's a shake down that Jesse Jackson would admire. Remember the good old days when weaker countries used to have to pay stronger countries not to attack them. I wonder what the Roman Legions would make of modern diplomacy. I have to ask what the purpose of striving for greatness is. It seems like the meek are inheriting the Earth right under our noses.