to bulletproofmonk:
At the end of your replies to a thread you claim to crave facts. I will seek to edify you and ignore the typical baiting that comes from the left.
Post WWII (1940-1945) (which people today have no idea how close we came to losing) America and the Soviets essentially ruled the world. A balance of power was developed with the values imposed upon cultures across the planet.
The American based sphere was rebuilt (largely by Americans) and prospered, leading to the largest number of people to live in unbounded freedom in the history of the world. Travel a few eastern block countries today, or just compare N. and S. Korea for a contrast in success.
This balance of power and the threat of MAD (mutually assured destruction) led to a new phenomena, limited war, this is conflicted concept as limited war is terribly hard to succeed at, however a brief perusal of casualty figures will show they have gone down steadily so it's possible to consider the current state of things (MAD) an improvement.
American diplomacy has attempted to maintain peace throughout the world. They are guilty today as Rome was guilty during her fall, of bribing the barbarians and trying to pay the world to be peaceful. As one example, we give the PLO money to be peaceful, while Iran gives them rockets to shoot at Israel.
As the American power sphere collapses the various vacuums will be filled by whomever is most opportune and ruthless. Political Followers of the Prophet, China, and Putinites are already whetting their knives to carve up our carcass.
In 20 years three quarters of the world will be dying (in some cases literally) for the sight of an American soldier.
these are facts, and reasonable speculation based on fact, if you haven't choked yet, here's more of the same:
http://steelgeneral.blogspot.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-decline-of-american-power.html
I removed the link, changed islam to 5 different structures, checked 3 times for the word black, but i have been unable to get posted
