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To: Francois Goelo who wrote (10142)	7/15/2002 12:10:34 PM
From: Edscharp	of 19401

"Unfortunately, the US of MNA Empire is now on the decline and should soon meet the unenviable fate of all other Empires before it...." This is a very good and very interesting issue; also, a very complex one. It's almost impossible for anyone to predict what our future holds for us. However, if you are predicting a decline like the kind experienced by the Roman Empire I couldn't disagree more. We live in a time of unparalleled technology and communications and there is nothing analogous to the barbarian Goths that brought down the Roman Empire. Even our modern day terrorists don't come even close to this role. Any earnest attempt made by them to bring down this country would be met with a retaliatory effort a hundred-fold greater than the provocation. Believe me. However, it is not totally out of the question that other countries could become ascendant relative to our own. China is sometimes mentioned as a country that could be the next Superpower. This might be convincing to me if China could overcome their own government which still constricts innovation and free enterprise. IMO, it will be many years before that country matures and can rid themselves of the remnants of their communist past (much less their communist present). I appreciate that nothing lasts forever, but it's difficult to perceive at this juncture in history what kind of event could bring about our precipitous downfall. I believe the U.S. and it's allies will be around for many scores of years to come.

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