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in article , Ken from Chicago at
wrote on 6/9/06 4:30 AM:

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> "ameijers" > wrote in message
> ...
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>> "Geoff Miller" > wrote in message
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>>> Peter A > blathers:
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>>> : We're the most dominant nation in the history of the planet.
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>> (diatribe snipped)
>> Pax Romana came to an end, Pax Brittania came to an end, even Pax
>> Sovieticus
>> came to an end. Pax Americanus can't last forever. Sure, under current
>> condition, the US military, and the US economy/culture can subvert or
>> destroy anything in the world. Blowing something away is easy. Holding
>> another country without destroying it is much harder.
>>
>> The finest structures in the world succumb to the lowly termite. Stone is
>> eventually ground away by the wind. If and when the US falls, or merely
>> goes
>> lower on empire food chain like UK did, the odds are it won't be due to an
>> overt outside enemy on an actual attack. It will fall like most previous
>> empires, from within, from lack of money or interest, or from the social
>> contract breaking down due to a marginalized middle class, a small
>> uber-rich
>> class of haves, and a honking big crowd of have-nots.
>>
>> (standard disclaimer- I hope it lasts till I am worm food, and I'm trying
>> very hard to not contribute to entropy.)
>>
>> aem sends....
>>
>>
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> Ask Ozymandus.

The guy at the end of that great Avengers comic with the final defeat of
Ultron?