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To: philv who wrote (18106)	4/28/2003 5:08:18 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81023

Phil > The key to all of this is economics IMO. Money makes all this possible for the US, and Money could be the achilles heal in the long term. I fail to understand what the US could possibly hope to achieve by subjugating the world if, in fact, it is as wealthy as you imply it is. In my opinion, the US is desperate and is doing what it is doing in response to what it sees happening around it. I believe, if peace prevails, as indeed it has for many years, then the US is doomed --- not necessarily to disaster but to a diminished place in the world picture. In fact, if the present economic and political trends continue, the East, possibly including Europe, is sure to dominate the world economy and thereafter world political hegemony. As I have mentioned before, if all things are equal, how can 300 million hope to dominate 6 billion economically and politically for all time? One has only to consider the manifestly undesirable state of the US economy to realize, in my opinion, why the US has embarked on its new political and military adventures. America may have a fantastic army (certainly at a fantastic cost) but its economic position relative to the rest of the world is quite different from what it was at the time of WW2 when it was the industrial giant. It is for this reason, again in my opinion, that the US has to use its military because, if it offers no benefit, then why keep it, especially considering its cost? Thus, to me, these new adventures of the US have not been undertaken out of strength but out of weakness, particularly economic and political weakness, and, indeed, out of fear that the situation will become worse. Further, I find the war hysteria and manifest patriotism, in fact bordering on jingoism, indicative of this weakness, uncertainty and fear. I have to say this is not the calm, confident and self-critical America I once knew.