Look--up in the sky--it's America!

[driver]

<p>A clever metaphor from a youngish Harvard history prof. Obviously a Larry Summers hire, and a good one.

Like Superman, the United States has vast potential strength. If it wants to be, it really can be “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.” It is richer by far than the other countries. It has mind-boggling firepower, enough to incinerate Iran and North Korea in an afternoon. And yet, as Blair understands, this Superman would really rather revert to being Clark Kent in Smallville. Of course, the moral of “Superman Returns” is that when the messianic Man of Steel retreats into provincial isolation, the world is not the utopia of foreign imaginings. The way things are going, we shall soon find out the hard way that there are worse things than an American superpower.

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<p><a href=“Look! Up in the sky! It's America!”>Look! Up in the sky! It's America!;

[karthikkito]

<p>It’s a bird…it’s a plane…it’s Superman!</p>

<p>…or, as our friend Colbert would say, it’s the Hindenburg :).</p>

[Dadguy]

<p>Sometimes we’re Superman, sometimes we’re his drunken uncle, Stuporman.</p>

[driver]

<p>And sometimes we have people trying to weaken us by sneaking little pieces of Kryptonite into our cape…</p>

[LakeWashington]

<p>Why can’t the U.S. by Bruce Banner and just smash all the annoying little states, er I mean gnats, that annoy us. “Hulk smash!” Hulk doesn’t understand soldiers’ confusing words!! Hulk doesn’t like guns. Hulk smash!"</p>

[latetoschool]

<p>Y’all’ve slipped off the slope lol</p>

[Dadguy]

<p>Through skillful diplomacy and manly action, we’ve turned the Justice League into the “Just Us” League.</p>