RE: The United States in Full Thrust

On 27 Apr 2001, at 6:34, David Griffin wrote:

> I have to admit my secondary motivation  to bring this up is that I
> don't buy the fluff. I don't see the US collapsing, 

Why? Are the US politicians and economists somehow better than all 
the others throughout history? 

> or US generals taking control and asking for UN intervention, 

Why? Are the US generals too indecisive to try and rectify a bad 
situation? Are they too proud to help for outside help?

> or us becoming a part of the NAC. 

Becoming a founder member of a global super-power that makes the 
current USA look lightweight, how terrible would that be?

> I'm not a stickler for plausibility (I watch Star Trek), but that
> strains even my suspension of disbelief.  Come on, we're better than
> that. 

I'm sure that a Roman would have said similar things if you'd 
predicted a collapse of his empire. 
 
> Can't you see how appealing it would be
> for a Brit to have England be a major player
> again instead of this breakaway colony
> who's now back where it "belonged." Hey
> I like England as much as the next 
> American, but we didn't want to be an
> English colony back in 1776 and I don't
> see it happening in the future.

Now I don't get this. Where does it say that the USA becomes a 
British (not English) colony? The background states that the UK, the 
USA and Canada unite under the crown. The Queen is head of state in 
Canada today. Doesn't make Canada a british colony though.

I see the NAC as a confederation of all three founder members, with a 
single government (with the monarch as titular head of state) but 
with distinct regional differences. The USA would make up the bulk of 
the AC's population when first founded - there's no way that all 
those people could be treated as second class citizens. The former 
USA provided the nascent NAC with the bulk of its resources and 
population - in many ways the former USA was the very core of the 
NAC. 

If you want to talk about the downtrodden colonial population, then 
what about the inhabitants of the former LLAR?

	Steve

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