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To: TobagoJack who wrote (54619)	9/7/2009 8:55:02 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219166

I like the Robin Williams version of who invented golf. vbg As far as the article, well, it is best not to take anything for granted, to look at all sides of a debate, to hold an idea and not dismiss it out of hand simply because it challenges what we believe. As I said, the article's glaring weakness is the failure to take economic issues and the newly-created debt into account in reaching its conclusions. How these issues will affect American power remains to be seen. However, I will be not very surprised if one effect is a decrease military spending. Still, it is at such high levels presently that even a modest decrease could well leave the US preeminent militarily for many years. It was a provocative article, worth considering seriously. Its source should have given the author's viewpoint away....you won't find many hand-wringing US declinists at Stanford and the Hoover Institution. Agree, of course, about gold.