[Sethomas]

I wonder how I'm going to feel when our military obsession finally causes us to default on all our international debts. I wonder how good of a world security force we'll be then.

France has the third largest standing military in the world, last I heard. The only reason why Germany doesn't is because the rest of the world thinks they should feel bad for their unrequited guilt of being German. Same goes for Japan, I guess. We need a military, yes. But do we need a military that's throwing us trillions upon trillions into debt? I know we xenophobes have to play the cowboy with the biggest gun in town, but the fiscal insanity it incurs isn't going to allow us go on like that much longer.

So, to get back to topic, probably in the next twenty years we're going to come to the sad realization that the United Nations isn't just the United States' Halloween costume with which it just scares its own nutjob conservatives. We only started paying our membership dues and the respective debt in what, 2002? And didn't that have some kind of, umm, ulterior motive? I think we realized fully well that we couldn't keep playing the Cold War game once the Cold War actually ended, so we just moved the badguys to the Middle East to keep it going. It's not going to work, and hopefully it won't ruin us before we figure that out.

In the international community, we're marginalizing ourselves and we're coming very close to self-castration. We're not going to ask for help until we're desperate, and probably the rest of the world realizes this in full. Hence, how can you blame them for not wanting to play with us anymore?