It’s just ironic as fuck to read an idiotic naysayers post like yours, claiming everything will be fine (based on nothing, I might add) when the reality was millions of lost jobs and trillions of borrowed money.

Now, had the US not actually gone to war, not only would thousands of lives not be ruined, but the 7 trillion dollars spent in the middle east could hvae been used to help the economy.

But hey, for having been (that’s in past tense) a bloodhungry idiotic nation, you get what you deserve.

At least things have changed greatly under Obama – the rest of the world doesn’t have any excuse now to hate the US.

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Additionally, to those making lame comparisons to Rome, the analogy is faulty. Human society has matured, governmental bodies are different and the economic conditions are distinctly different then the pre-middle age era that Rome existed in. Maybe you should actually read and study the matter before pretending to be experts on the subject. Idiots.

On the technology side, America is not that far ahead of anyone. There are several things that other countries can do far better than America. Firstly, stealth paint, that was invented in ENGLAND! DNA discovered in CAMBRIDGE! I would go on but there’s point. People who are up thier own arses never listen anyways. Just because you’ve invented a few computer programs and have started a few wars with a few countries, it doesn’t make you king of the hill. I would seriously recommend reading some history before posting comments that are factually and historically incorrect.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

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Hey Mike, read some history. Rome was the technological and military center of the Ancient world and yet they fell. Roman ships and legions kept the sea lanes open right up until the day their enemies were marching through the capital. Though the centuries have passed, the conditions of failure are very similar.

Bankrupt nations do not stay powerful. Period. Look at what happened to Britain, the mightiest and richest empire ever, until they fought one war too many. Sun Tzu, the author of the Art of War (still used to train officers at West Point), warns many times that actually fighting to achieve your ends will eventually deplete you too much and destroy you.

America is not that far ahead of its competitors, especially in things that can destroy the country. Seems to me that Chinese and Russian nukes, though less sophisticated, would do a fine job of wiping America off the face of the Earth. Any conceivable tech advantages the US has, like the proposed missile shields, are far too expensive and inefficient to offer protection sufficient to prevent America’s destruction.

But why go that route? War is not the natural state of Man. It is caused by shortages of resources (both real and manufactured), and far most commonly by prideful and bloodthirsty men who only respect force, sorta like yourself. Human societies have spent a lot of effort evolving laws to ensure that the guy with the biggest club doesn’t dominate his neighborhood. International law will catch up to this thinking eventually.

The economic crisis that is sweeping the world shows that everyone is interconnected by a web of international relations – financial, cultural, etc. To have one nation think that they can still pound on their neighbors to get what they want will lead to destruction for all. Abandoned cities will be the least of our problems then.