Are you amused as you witness the decline and fall of the American empire?

Answer 1

Amused no.

Do I draw parallels with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire? yes.

Was the 1950 & 1960 America zenith?

What goes up, must come down. Often empires/businesses are built by one generation, forsaking and lost by the next.

Americans are becoming stupid, ignorant and lazy. We have forgotten what hard work is like, we have fallen into a greedy superficial soceity without morals or scurpals.
Our grand parents have done great things, things that have bettered mankind, sacrificed, toiled, and built a great nation, that the present generation has wasted in a pursuit of happiness, drugs, sex, and self indulgence.
It is easier to tear apart what someone else built than to build something.

But I most definetly am not amused.

Answer 2

Never underestimate "Yankee ingenuity." We are currently the worlds only superpower for a reason. Our economic system survived while others did not. Why? Our system rewards creativity and excellence while socialist governments reward mediocrity and sloth.

We are now a global economy. The country who is best at satisfying the needs of a global marketplace will be the dominant "economic empire" of the future, not the country with the most people. As far as military might goes, any country like Russia, China, the U.S., or Great Britain could destroy the world with a flick of a switch. No one wins.

Answer 3

Guess what Pencil, I just broke your lead and your eraser has been chewed down.

Laugh all the way to the end my friend, when the American flag finally falls to the ground, I can bet that there isn't another person left in our beloved country to hold it up.

Where ever your from, when the fires start who's going to pull you from the ashes, we'll be gone. When the floods start, who'll be there to give you shelter, we'll be gone. When your government cannot feed you anymore, we won't be there with our ship loads of wheat and corn, flour. You'll be on your own.

So be amused my little small minded friend, my little troll hiding under that musty bridge, when we go, so will the Nations of the world, the world will be no more without us.

Answer 4

The decline of the American Empire will happen sooner than you think. The real threat comes from China which will not only be the next super power but will eclipse America a hundred fold.
The reason is that it has about a sixth of the world's population. If has untold untapped mineral wealth in an area of land hard to imagine. It has a highly disciplined (if harsh) domestic regime.
If China chose to go to war with the US in say 10 years they could have an army the size of the US population and fire power which would turn the globe to ashes.
Failing that the US will decline and sooner rather than later. The British Empire was the biggest the world had ever seen and that disappeared overnight.
America has probably already peaked in my view. World powers come and go. (Look at the former Soviet Union - 3 years and it fell!) The US cannot expect history to treat it any different.

Answer 5

I'll be too old to see that. America's decline and fall will start when we reach our pinnacle, which is hundreds of years in the future.

P.S.
You better hope it doesn't happen. Without America, and our British allies, this planet would really be in chaos.
The countries of Asia, mainly China and India, are emitting so much pollution into the atmosphere that in 200 years time, insects might be ruling the planet.

P.P.S.
A country whose leaders are democratically elected and those leaders have a limited term of power, is not an empire, but thanks for the comparison.

Answer 6

America isn't going anywhere anytime soon. You better invest your gambling dollars in the prospect that we will not only survive, but will come out stronger than we were before 9-11 happened.
As Captain John Paul Jones once said, ""I have not yet begun to fight":
We have resources upon resources that have not yet been tapped. Just sit back and watch us show you the strength of America. We love our nation, and will all die before we let it go. Only a fool would under estimate the strength of this United States of America.

Answer 7

I don't think it is falling just yet.

OTOH I am "amused" when I see the antics of many US Dem politicians who are busy every day trying to make the US fall- all under the guise of "politically correct" policies

Answer 8

Funny!
Ha! Ha!
Study your history and you might learn something other than that which has happened in your brief lifetime. Maybe you'll grow up some day and realize that America IS the "Last, Best Hope."
If you don't like it here - move - maybe Russia will take you...

Answer 9

America's foreign policy is solely determined by it's economic and security requirements under the Bush administration. Unlike previous governments there is no philanthropy involved. This is a government of thugs, led by a thug and in my lifetime, which covers the second half of the 20th Century, I have never known America, held internationally in such low esteem. It is frightening, not amusing.

Answer 10

I don't think "amused" is the right word.