RE: Re: The United States in Full Thrust

Well, here's hoping you're wrong, and it it
does happen, I may have to live through it
in real life, but I don't have to do so in my
liesure time activity.

--- "laserlight@quixnet.net" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
wrote:
> 
> Dave Griffin said:
> >That <ie the US breaking up into regional factions>
> is more plausible to me >too, but I'd like to think
> we would last longer than a few
> >hundred years. Is our "great experiment" so short
> lived a thing?
> 
> Most likely.	Most empires don't last more than
> 200-300 years, and the US in the last few years
> certainly has the same symptoms of a "declining
> empire" so I wouldn't bet on it lasting (as a major
> power) for more than another 20-75 years (depending
> on what happens with the next big war).
> 
> See Sir John Glubb's "The Fate of Empire"--I can
> synopsize off list or on if there's the demand for
> it. 
> 
> 
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