Would the U.S. Government have failed?

Question

If President Bush attacked another country (this is nothing against Bush, just a hypothetical question) and the U.S. got a serious backlash from other countries, lose the war to the terrorists, remove ourselves from the middle east, fall into a national debt we cannot recover from, lose social security, have terrorist bombing within our country and the nation goes into massive inflation - would our great government be forever known as a historical failure? How likely are these to occur?

Answer 1

"would our government be forever known as a historical failure?"

You can never tell how history will judge. I suspect Bush would be remembered about like Hoover in that scenario.

"How likely are these to occur?"

Some of them are more likely than others. Complete withdrawl from the Middle East seems unlikely, for instance, even the most hystrionic Democrats are more pragmatic than that. Losing the war seems pretty nearly inevitable at this point - no matter what the military situation, if a nation loses the will to fight, it loses the war, and that will is something like 72% gone according to the polls. In the presence of massive inflation, debts become easier to pay off, so it's unlikely we'll see both of those. Social Security can be salvaged if population growth can be maintained - and the prospects of an Immigration 'reform' bill capable of creating millions of new citizens with a swipe of the pen are excellent. Terrorist attacks can become a fact of life and not actually disrupt a nation that month. Brittain lived with terrorism for decades, for instance.

Answer 2

This is not likely at all, and I will attempt to describe why. First off we are the worlds last remaining superpower meaning that no nation can equal our military might. Second nations can not afford to imply economic sanctions on the US because we are the primary consumer. Most of the great global economic booms which are happening now (especially China) is because we are buying their products. To impose sancitons is to cripplet their own economies. In regards to the terrorist bombings the sad truth is american kill more americans everyday than any terrorist ever have. As for infaltion we have a very good system of managing inflation. So again I find this very unlikely. I am convinced the only thing that can harm us is ourselves. The true threat is if we begin to dacay like Rome or Greece. Once we as Americans forget who we are and what we stand for then we will fail.

Answer 3

Our leader did attack the wrong country for oil. We have backlash, We won the war in the first week, we just can't win the peace (by design = order out of chaos) Terrorism has been around long before there was a "war" against it, we won't leave the middle east ever, We have a national debt, but we can recover if our leadership wasn't pushing for recession. Social security won't be seen, 9/11 was an inside job, we have inflation, our govt. has failed us. This has occured.

Answer 4

Dude you need to grow up and revisit this silly question again.Stop listening to soros and all the other libs.

Answer 5

Not very likely

Answer 6

boy you are pessimistic. i dont see any of those things happening.

Answer 7

we already did fail.