China will become a super power within a matter of time, I'd say by 10 years really. After that it is down hill. By and large things have changed in the world. Shit isn't ideal, I won't say it is, but by and large the climate of the world is different. One thing that drives the progression of the world is conflict and war. I know peace-niks will disagree with me, that's great, you're wrong, history is on my side. It seems right now conflicts don't so much lay between countries as they do idealogies. That's why we combat "terrorism" or whatever else.
I think a lot of this has to do with the fact of what other have said here, we aren't one super power, we (America) are the sole hyper-power. On the flip countries of the world have faded namely France, Russia, Germany, England (the big 4 no big surprise); and by and large those countries interests are not the same as ours read Iraq and energy, same with China, which energy issues with them in the future and our current energy choices/problems will lead to conflict.
Conditions of the world are bound to change and give way to conflict, and no Iraq is not conflict, WWI/WWII/KOREA was conflict. Right know nobody is crazy like Hitler, there are no conditions that have given birth or at best let a person raise to that place and power. And I'm sure people will assert that Shrub is the anti-christ next Hitler, we are all conservative and the evil empire, freedom is lost the world is doomed. Puh-leaze.
I think the next time conflict, war, the driving force of our species and civilization, we are all fucked. America will be crippled against China and clearly the rest of the world is too big on diplomacy and the notion that people are rational and that some don't play the game fair. I am ranting, so sorry.
No we can't get it back, until the next conflict. When we shed this pussified complex, I'm not talking in specifics or recent conflicts. America is a great nation, the best of modern times and a power that rivals all the great empires and powers in history. I don't care that our standing is bad right now, Shrub is out of office in 3 years, then it is someone elses chance to hold the most lonely job in the world. Maybe what I've failed to say, all I need to say, is this shit won't last for ever and in relativity to us, is only cyclical.
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