Add to the bleaker picture - US economy.

Submitted by Syed Kasim (Canada), Oct 12, 2007 at 17:09

Add to the bleaker picture - US economy.

How long can the America support Israel with its UN veto power. When money goes off, everything goes off. Today's America is not even closer to the one when it was at its peak (in 1980's). American economy was 32% of the world economy in 1980's. Now only less than 20%. Its currency went down by more than one third in the last 5 years. And still the dollar is the oil currency. When it loses its value still more, the oil currency status will be gone. Then there will be steep decline.

And the US national debt doubles in the Bush's 8 years ruling. There were days economists could think that just by flooding the foreign money as debt into American economy, make the debt look smaller as a smaller percentage of a bigger economy. That was possible when giant economies of China and India were crawling upto 1980s. Now those economies are running with almost zero debt. When we consider the university graduate outputs in the disciplines of Engineering and Finance professionals combinedly, India was number one, China number two and the US was number three in 2003.

So, after 10 more years American hands will shake to use the UN veto power in support of Israel against almost the whole world. When money goes off, everything goes off. Russia is in the same status now. Before end of cold war Russia was the one to use the UN veto power the most.

For the first 30 years Israel's existence was supported by Europeans, the second 30 years by Americans, the third 30 years(probably from 2025 onwards) may be by Chinese and the fourth 30 years may be by Muslims.

So, distance from Americans and get closer to Chinese. The power is there where money is.

Here is the tolerance level:

If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God. Deuteronomy 8:19-20

Vs.

Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians, whoever believes in God and the Last day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord, and there is no fear for them, nor shall they grieve. Quran 2:62

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