Are we a Super Power anymore?

[SmokingJacket]

A friend of mine at dinner the other night suggested that this hurricane will mark, for people of the future looking back, the point at which we ceased to be a superpower.

What do you think?

I tend to agree...

[Silverhair]

1. Still a Superpower. NT

[Toots]

14. Only because we can kill more people than any other country

We are not a "Super Power" in taking care of people. Haven't been for over five years now.

[H5N1]

15. I am afraid you are correct

[Silverhair]

17. True.

Usually the term is used to refer to military power. In that sense, still a superpower.

[JuniperLea]

2. Who would trust "us" with such power now?

I sure don't.

[mr mister]

3. I think it started when we decided to go to war against...

...people of color over oil.

[valerief]

4. Yeah. China now rules the world, I think

[Systematic Chaos]

5. I completely agree.

We're well on our way to third world status. Most people just don't know it yet.

[Tatiana]

6. Superpowerless, I think. n/t

[mattclearing]

7. I think it may actually be 9/11.

That marked the point at which we ceased to claim the moral high ground. Everything that followed was politically calculated for maximum benefit to an elite class of people, and the rest of the world was pushed aside in the wake of that aim.

[daninthemoon]

11. Absolutely.

[fluffernutter]

12. I agree, I think it will go back to 9/11 in the history books.

[CountAllVotes]

13. I agree!

I remember right after 9/11 I was walking up the street and I suppose I had a rather worried look on my face and a man several years younger than myself looked at me and said hello. I said to him, "Hello". I then said I was very worried about what had happened and I'll never forget what he said to me which was, "Why worry? We are #1!" He had a big grin on his face and gave me the :thumbsup: . I remember thinking to myself, "yeah right, #1 alright ... we are not #1, you just think we are because you believe what the gov't tells you." I did not say this to the man but those were my thoughts.

American's arrogance and their superiority complex has yet to die, but the reality of these two complexes is bogus and false. We are living in a country that has failed its citizens. All of us, Democrats, Republicans, everyone.

So no, I don't think that America is a superpower any longer. They lost the war on terror the day that 9/11 occurred. Since this time it has been nothing but a slow and vicious decline. It will only worsen. I fear what the next horrible incident might be because we are running out of allies quickly in case everyone has not yet noticed. We are on our own alright ... like it or not.

:kick:

[Deja Q]

8. In our thoughts, yes. In reality? Not until the jobs come back...

Infrastructure. Without it, we are no superpower. Superfragile, yes...;

[Jara sang]

9. No, we are a "hyper-power"

Some how more super than super. I always love reading that on some of the "other" conservative boards. You can actually hear the right-wing fascists creaming their shorts as they type it. The United States is a paper tiger.

[daninthemoon]

10. We are definetly teetering on the edge. We can still destoy as many

people as we want, but any other measure shows us lacking. Emperor Bush et al have already taken the teeth from congress, about to conquer the supreme court, and Haliburton and friends, like cockroaches will be the only survivors. One more earthquake, flood, or terror attack, maybe even sunspots, and we may not come back.

[mzteris]

16. maybe when they realized it

we stopped being a "super power" the day dimson's friends stole the office of the Presidency.

[wli]

18. No. The country's toast.

We're in rapid free-fall. The military resources and hardware are being squandered. There is no manufacturing base to replenish it. The treasury is far beyond bankrupt. Living conditions are going down the toilet with the exception of a select few. The dollar has been in free fall against just about every other currency on the planet.

The economic collapse will be instantaneous as soon as the Iranian oil bourse opens. No one will touch the US dollar from there out.