Would Ronald Reagan let a few rug riders take on the U.S.A. and make fools out of them for years ?
2007-12-07 02:05:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The US has the largest Gross Domestic Product of any nation, the largest military, very high rates of literacy and education, and well-developed infrastructure, social services, and capital markets.
The US has one of the longest continuing constitutions, strong rules of law, a serious committment to private property rights, and strong cultural traditions of entrepreneurialism, trade, commerce, and individual rights and liberties.
The US is, like most industrialized nations, transitioning from an economy based on lower-skilled, mass manufacturing to speciality manufacturing and specialty services (such as software, information technology, biotech, health care, finance, etc).
This transition (set in motion after WW II) has left a large part of the populace on the other side of the "digital divide."
There is a considerable part of the labor pool that doesn't have the skills necessary for success in the 21st century, ie, high literacy in reading/writing; math/science/IT; discipline, etc.
I blame the civil service system (including public education), silly tax and regulatory structures, the baby boom, and numerous other factors for this - but there's also a large portion of the population that's thriving - adding value, becoming prosperous or quite wealthy, producing valuable goods and services - so I think where you fall along this continuum will affect your perceptions of whether the economy is bad, or your perceptions of how America is losing her position as the world's leader in "power and influence."
But it really hasn't happened yet, by any objective measure, and barring some remarkable internal political shift, I really doubt a decline in US preeminence will happen within our lifetime.
2007-12-07 02:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew S 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
About 600 years after the influence of christianity on the world starts to decline.
2016-05-22 00:08:57 · answer #2 · answered by nydia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1962 during the Cuban Missile crisis. Since that time our influence has been ever so slowly dwindling. Our military is a fraction the size it was under President Kennedy. As for Reagan , didn't he cut and run in Lebanon ? One suicide bomber and he up and pulled our troops out.
2007-12-07 03:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by old-bald-one 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one can answer that question yet. Its debatable whether that peak has even been hit yet.
Either way it will take awhile for it to become clear--just look at the decline of the British Empire and when it was realized that she was in decline.
2007-12-07 02:37:38 · answer #4 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't RR the president who caved in to terrorists when 220 Marines died in Beirut? Don't let the facts get in your way.
2007-12-07 02:32:01 · answer #5 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Andrew S gets it!
have you great grandchildren ask this question again in their history class on Mars.......
2007-12-07 07:27:08 · answer #6 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's easy; 1963. The day Jack Kennedy died.
2007-12-07 03:04:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't think we have peaked yet, but the citizens are sure becoming spoiled, pansy bastards.
2007-12-07 02:10:02 · answer #8 · answered by Brad K 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋