blatham wrote:Bi-Polar Bear wrote:Blatham as a Canadian, do you fear for your country if one day many nations band together and decide the US has gotta go? You know, collateral damage and all.
It's a serious question.
Actually, BP, the thought had never entered my head until you put it there. Thanks a lot.
But I don't see such a future as likely. Outside of some weird turn of events (disappearance of the magnetic field, ebola, etc), I don't think America will face an equal enemy for a fair while. It's hard to imagine how bad things would have to become for Europe to set itself against the US, or to have the might to do so. China is the wildcard, certainly, but again, unless the US goes even more crackers than it is right now (a possibility, I confess...another term of these guys, along with consolidation of power in the hands of the fundamentalist block and the US would really lose much of its identity and tradition, and certainly would lose what good will it hasn't lost already) I think everyone will reach the conclusion that some serious opposition between those two countries would be nothing but disaster.
I fear that on our current course, without change, a scenario where people decide we gotta go is not far fetched. I also believe the EU will become our greatest enemy down the road, maybe not in our life times but certainly. If OPEC nations were to switch to the Euro it would be disastrous to our country in the short term anyway, and our boys in DC only know one way to deal with that. Horrible and bloody agression.
As strong and powerful as we are, we are no match for the whole world if they decided that we were taking the entire planet down the tubes in our quest to attain our manifest destiny.
