<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 September 2012 18:00, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The US military budget is more than the rest of the world put together.<br>
Neither Obama or Romney intend to reduce it. The future planned for<br>
America is to threaten the rest of the world and take what it wants by<br>
any means possible. As the dollar collapses the US won't be able to<br>
buy what it needs. Force will be the only alternative.<br></blockquote></div><br>At the very least, military spending - in spite of its obvious consequences on the US deficit - delays and reduces the decline of dollar, so I suspect that the "buying" and the "taking" strategies are converging anyway. :-)<br>
<br>But, yes, the "clash of civilisations" is a propagand myth. Let us say that tomorrow the Atheistic Liberal Republic of Iran is put in place by a revolution. Would the US really be happy should it become a nuclear regional power? I doubt it.<br>
<br>--<br>Stefano Vaj<br>