The United States of Europe

"The United States is about to confront a fierce new competitor, unlike any the nation has faced in its history."writes Joel Brinkley, a professor of Journalism at Stanford University in an article today.
Yes, it is but most Americans are too busy with the wars in Iraq , Afghanistan and the nonsense perpetrated by the silly gang at home to take note of something huge building up across the ocean.
Our new administration will make the US vulnerable to losing more and more ground in the world as time goes on.
Those on the watch, however, have seen the rise of a potentially uber-powerful United States of Europe as the beginning of the end of America in more ways than one.
The US, rather than impede the rise of the new European superstate has actually encouraged it. At first glance this might sound like a good thing to do , but given the history of Europe and it's inability to get along peacefully, its tendency to create wars involving most of the world, it is actually an ominous sign.

Ireland , the Czech Republic and Poland have stalled the super states take off with their objections to the Lisbon Treaty.President Vaclav Klaus in fact, is a greatly against it.
The Lisbon treaty is just a reworking of the EU Constitution which, in effect, nullifies the sovereignty of individual nations in favor of a powerful central federal government that will rule all Europe.
"The treaty authorizes the E.U. to open embassies around the world -- in addition to the embassies each European state already has. The central government could sign treaties and other international agreements on behalf of its members. It would begin to look like a large and powerful nation unto itself rather than a loose collection of states, as it is now. It would have its own foreign service and, perhaps, the authority to act decisively in each country where it holds representation."...Joel Brinkley .
Ireland and other nations had grave reservations about the Constitution and voted it down. The problem is that the EU will not take no for an answer and keeps ramming it down the people's throats forcing them in an ever tightening circle to vote yes.
Britain signed and in so doing signed away much of their sovereignty.
Once Ireland does the same the EU will become a "United STates of Europe" run by one man at its core.
It will have one foreign policy, one view, one purpose, sort of.
With a population of 500 billion it will be larger than the US population and it will have a gross domestic product that is 20% more than the US.
The presence and increasing power of a Mohammedan voice within that US of Europe has a very definite possibility of making it a great enemy of the United States.

All this falls on the ears of a sleeping America, too enmeshed in it's own difficulties to bother looking across the ocean and too assured that America will never have a rival.
But as Joel Brinkley says,

Much remains to be decided. But whatever happens, the United States will soon have a powerful ally -- or a fearsome rival.

The latter seems far more likely given the way things are going in Europe right now and past history.

As of late today Bloomberg news reports this:

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the last European Union leader yet to sign the Lisbon Treaty, suggested he may not continue to stand in the way, as the ratification process has gone too far to stop it.

Klaus said in yesterday’s Lidove Noviny newspaper that while he “can’t consider” the treaty to be positive for Europe or the Czech Republic, “the train with it is going so quickly and is so far that it probably won’t be possible to stop or return it, however much some of us would wish that.”

One thing is certain, Klaus is dead on when he says it won't "be positive for Europe or the Czech Republic".
Many think it will be the worst thing to come along since the third Reich.

For valuable information on what to expect and what is really going on in Europe , see Rodney Atkinson's Free Nations.
To learn why many believe a European Union is a culmination of Nazi plans for a new reich, see HERE