Well, maybe the United States should listen to its creditors and investors as far as getting involved in another War in the Middle East. Our greatest investor for the last four hundred years, Great Britain, has just voted not to get involved in Syria. Our biggest creditor, China, has taken the position that we should not get involved in Syria in any way. Since we exported over 50,000 factories abroad over the last decade we no longer have the industrial base to get any more loans and have lost the tax base of the middle class, its hard to pay for any Super Power intervention based upon increasing our red ink without possessing the pen and paper to pay for it anymore. And there are not enough poor and sick people to impoverish by transferring their entitlements to fuel the military and lack of industrial complex. Our post World War Two Super Power momentum has stalled, and if we try to maintain the fantasy that we can afford to be the only nation with the resources to fund omniscient and omnipotent enforcement of international treaties unilaterally, then we are about to enter into a slow death spiral whose acceleration will only be influenced by our inability to identify our self interest as a nation vs. our delusions of grandeur and influence as the ultimate power to change regimes and nation build.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:09:40 +0000
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