Let me now begin with Iraq... Yes, ISO, I agree Iraq is only ONE example of US's extraordinary blunders, but it is the ONE example that has profound and far-reaching implications on US' role in global politics of the future. Numbering the issues might be helpful: 1. By resorting to "pre-emptive" strike based on false information at best, or flat out lies at worst, it has at least begun to lose respect among the nations of the world. The few of those who are standing by the US are only doing so, I think, because of economic advantages. 2. By faling to control the rag-tag militants who number only in the thousands, the US military, supposedly the mightiest with all the state-of-the-art equipments, are also losing respect. Fewer nations may fear the army of the Goliath in the future. 3. ECONOMY. With the costs of the war amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, the (mis)adventure in Iraq will certainly have a long term adverse effect on US economy. At a time when economy is replacing military might as a chief indicator of a country's power, it surely doesn't help the US' stance a superpower with a weak economy in the future. Many other issues related to Iraq -- Sunni-Shiite conflicts/fractionalism, oil, Middle-East politics...aadi-ittyadi -- ta chhandai chhan. But I think the above three points relate to super powerism.