... is the projection that the EU will continue to grow at this neck breaking speed. Just can't see this happening.

But, I can't see the United States' muscular view of itself capable of absorbing this message.

The US' Military expenditures are its major investmnts in the future, and the ROI from this set of investments appears negative...

In other words, we are putting our money where our hearts lie, Guns.

It is a very good and thought provoking article, but I don't think it propoerly accounts for the rumbling going on in banking. The purpose of capitalism is to produce capital and it has seriously overproduced. That is what the whole credit bubble is about. Money can only be saved by investing it, but there is a finite quantity of investment potential in the economy and an infinite amount of human desire for wealth. When the investment houses ran out of safe places to invest, they basically put a padlock on a dumpster and called it a safe, but forgot to tell the trash company not to pick it up. The fact is that the banking system is the fat man at the head of the table, clutching his chest, as that last bite of caviar dribbles down his chin.
When the dust settles, we will still have lots of guns, but not so many bullets.

and it is now too unkempt to lie in. All administrations in the last half of the 20th century played the global hegemony game, but it took George W. Bush to kick over the table and scatter the pieces during his two-term, PNAC-inspired hissy fit.

I have no problem with the multi-polar world Khanna documents here, but the U.S. needs government leadership and a more enlightened spirit of entrepenurialism leavened with the proper amount of (gasp) socialism to succeed economically in it. If we allow the present military-industrial-congressional colossus to continue as is, we need only look to movie "fantasy" as depicted in RoboCop, Max Headroom, and Bladerunner to see what kind of society we will be living in the not-so-distant future.

_{Turn back to the Constitution - and READ it.}

What others want for themselves trumps what we want for them.

America has a lot of soul searching to do. But that's a good thing.

of the kid at the scrub baseball games who owned the only baseball bat.
I have the bat and you play the game according to my rules.
Now everyone else have a bat, ball and mitt and they are telling him the rules.
He is still fighting for control and everyone are getting ready to kick him out of the game.

_{repressive governments mix administrative clumsiness & inefficiency with authoritarian tendencies.}