Alarm Bells In The U.S. -- Arnaud de Borchgrave, UPIAlarms are ringing as negative trends come together in a perfect storm. Is the United States sleepwalking into economic and geopolitical decline?
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- Gen. David Richards, the British chief of staff, in the understatement of the week, says the strategic landscape is "worrying" and the outlook "bleak."
The United States as the world's strongest geopolitical player has become ungovernable, saddled with a dysfunctional Congress. House and Senate together, with 535 members, maintain 250 committees and subcommittees and micromanage muscular government decisions into unworkable policy directives.
No fewer than 108 committees have oversight jurisdiction on Homeland Security.
The latest book of Edward Luce, the Financial Times' chief U.S. commentator, and former FT Washington bureau chief (2006-11), is titled, "Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent."
America, he says, is sleepwalking into economic and geopolitical decline.
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My Comment: What's my take .... the answer is yes .... but we are not sleepwalking into economic and geopolitical decline .... we are walking into it with our eyes wide open. In my life I have seen America change .... from that of a nation that dreamed of reaching the moon and accomplishing (and sacrificing) to do the impossible .... to a nation that is mired in debt, a sense of entitlement, and a culture that our descendents would be disgusted with. I still have hope that America will change .... that it will embrace the ideals and dreams that it's founders had .... but .... when I look at the landscape of America today .... I just do not see it happening.
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