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Perhaps US entered its period of decline a long time ago and it's only now that all the good work of past generations has been undone.

The last few wars were attempts to strengthen the US - quite frankly Oil really is more valuable for the US than winning the title of prom king.

Regardless of your or my personal opinion on what the war is doing there can be little doubt that Iraqi and Afghanistani Oil is going to play a huge part in the US keeping its position in the world.

The thing that actually unsettled things is that the Wall Street people got out of control and made too many inroads into the Government and started stealing from the Average American.