a: an extremely powerful nation; specifically : one of a very few dominant states in an era when the world is divided politically into these states and their satellites
b : an international governing body able to enforce its will upon the most powerful states
I wonder which country they are referring to as the superpower. If you ask me the United States does not fit the definition above since it is not very successful in enforcing its will up other states. The US has made it very clear that it does not want either Iran or North Korea to have nuclear weapons. Well, North Korea has just tested one, and Iran is on its way to getting one. Nothing the US has done in stopping them has worked. Along with Iraq, these two countries are labelled as the Axis of Evil by President Bush so I don't think the US isn't trying hard enough. One may argue that it still fits the first definition since it is extremely powerful. But if it is so powerful, why is it not winning the war in Iraq? Many people would actually say that it is losing that war. Maybe North Korea should be the sole superpower since it has been able to ignore what all the other nations warning and do the things that it was told it cannot do.
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