One has heard comparisons that the USA is the greatest superpower ever - greater than Ancient Rome.
Indeed, with the Bush re-election it is following the same trend of decline.
5% of the world's population with a grotesque overconsumption of 40% of the world's resources. 55% of oil imported and virtually no seeds of an alternative energy plan. Trade deficits year-in, year-out, even with a weak dollar, with China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, the European Union and countless other countries. A monumental fiscal defict financed by foreigners to the tune of over a billion dollars a day. When this largesse ceases the USA economy will decline sharply.
Eisenhower's warning of the military industrial complex has come to pass. Iraq is only the latest in a line of colonial wars or adventures - Bay of Pigs, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, & Vietnam.
It is more than likely in less than twenty years time we will live in a multipolar world composed of China, Japan, India, the European Union and South Asia. The USA may or may not be the PRIMUS INTER PARES.
Indeed, with the Bush re-election it is following the same trend of decline.
5% of the world's population with a grotesque overconsumption of 40% of the world's resources. 55% of oil imported and virtually no seeds of an alternative energy plan. Trade deficits year-in, year-out, even with a weak dollar, with China, Japan, Mexico, Canada, the European Union and countless other countries. A monumental fiscal defict financed by foreigners to the tune of over a billion dollars a day. When this largesse ceases the USA economy will decline sharply.
Eisenhower's warning of the military industrial complex has come to pass. Iraq is only the latest in a line of colonial wars or adventures - Bay of Pigs, Grenada, Nicaragua, Panama, & Vietnam.
It is more than likely in less than twenty years time we will live in a multipolar world composed of China, Japan, India, the European Union and South Asia. The USA may or may not be the PRIMUS INTER PARES.