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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KyrosL who wrote (95212)4/20/2003 7:38:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
It is obvious by now that America derives little, if any, economic benefit from its power, compared to the costs. If such expansion weakens the American economy, it cannot be sustained, and Europe may have the last laugh.

This is the War of Order against Disorder. Order is necessary for continued globalization, which America does benefit from. Thus it is far from obvious that America derives no benefits from this war - even if you discount the obvious benefit of now longer needing base troops in semi-hostile countries like SA to 'contain' Iraq. We now have an admitedly larger job of stationing troops in Iraq itself, but one which may yield a large Arab ally, which would be a great benefit. Furthermore, the entire war did not take up 1% of US GDP - the US economy is so large that it is hard to make cases for imperial overstretch à la the Spanish Empire except with handwaving. We just conquered a country the size of California in three weeks with 200,000 troops. Not the conditions to talk about overstretch.
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