American Interests: Really interesting perspective

I've been following a blog called American Interests, published by a man named Ottavio who calls himself Al. His stance is unlike most that I have found in the blogosphere, especially when I'm doing searches driven by history rather than politics. He believes in the necessary and healthy primacy of the American superpower. His most recent post actually talks about threats to that primacy as presented by cultural opposition from around the world, a really interesting way of looking at how exactly a nation maintains hegemony. This is what I said to say to that post... maybe you should go check him out, too!

What you say about the primacy of american culture is fascinating. I have been lately researching the development of American culture as implicitly tied into the changing nature of power in this country. Most recently, the power that we've come to rely on is a cultural power, supported by economic, military and diplomatic powers, etc. But now that we're in a depression, our military is overextended and unpopular and our government has some serious recovering to do, what chance does culture, does propaganda have on its own? It is just propaganda without the genuine nature of a superpower behind that culture.