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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:29:10 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:04:39 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The cold war is over. The new (global) war is economic. It's been that
way
for quite a while. China and Russia have no interest in fighting us.


I agree and we are in a whole lot worse shape in the economic war than
we ever were in the cold war.
A problem would come up if someone popped a nuke on their front porch
tho.

I disagree that we're in a lot worse shape than China or Russia, unless
you
mean we're in a lot worse shape lately.

Yes and I don't see it getting better any time soon. Russia is a train
wreck but China is projected to pass us as the biggest economy in a
decade.

Honestly, I don't either. It's going to take another 3-4 years to turn
around the current train wreck that has been visited upon us from the last
10 years. If the Republicans get back into power, their stated goal is to
return to the Bush-era style of laissez-faire governance, ref. Pete Sessions
I believe.

I don't think bigger is necessarily better, as far as economies go. China
has a huge number of systemic problems. Everyone keeps saying just wait, in
another X-number of years, they'll whatever (rule the world, you pick), but
it hasn't happened so far.

The greatest threat is from a terrorist acquiring something like a nuke or
biological weapons and being able to deploy it.

Certainly that is the most likely scenario and it will be hard to pick
the country we would want to strike back at but I am sure we will pick
one, right or wrong

Yeah, that's possibly true.