Thomas Friedman in full fantasy mode

To all those Europeans, Canadians, Japanese, Russians, Iranians, Chinese, Indians, Africans and Latin Americans who are e-mailing their American friends about their joy at having “America back,” now that Obama is in, I just have one thing to say: “Show me the money!”

Don’t just show me the love. Don’t just give me the smiles. Your love is fickle and, as I said, it will last about as long as the first Obama airstrike against an Al Qaeda position in Pakistan. No, no, no, show me the money. Show me that you are ready to be Obama stakeholders, not free-riders — stakeholders in what will be expensive and difficult initiatives by the Obama administration to keep the world stable and free at a time when we have fewer resources. NYT

What do they smoke at the Times? And why oh why is the Obama administration/US expected to "keep the world stable and free"? Ain't the UN supposed to be doin' something akin to that? Or perhaps the EU could step in. China. Anyone, please.

What am I smoking?