U.S. NOT the Western Roman Empire (I hope)

Submitted by James (United States), Sep 15, 2003 at 23:57

Very interesting. I do not think the U.S. is going to fall any time soon. I currently live and work in Germany for the U.S. Department of Defense, and while we are "down sizing" here this does not mean collapse, just re-structuring. I think the question should be "If the U.S. were going to fall would it go down in bloody chaos or just wither away like the British Empire.

I would hate to see what would happen in the world today if the U.S. just collapsed overnight. Just think what would happen in the Middle East or India and Pakistan. Korea. And let's not get started with Europe! Greece and Turkey (two NATO allies) would no doubt blow each other back to the Stone Age

While every Empire has a rise and fall, let us just hope that the US "Empire" will eventually go into some other stage not seen in the past and somehow bring the world closer to a Global Order and not collapse into chaos.

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