I found Abraham Denmark's early on remark about how our government spends and budgets money quite sobering and probably the single most important reason why we may never come close to recognizing such lofty goals. We simply may not have the national treasure to implement such international and foreign agendas this administration's NSS has set?

In building a road to battle, could that swath somehow doze pakistan into a turnpike. it wouldn't be like warring on them, just removing a corrupted old stump that started this mess and is in the way of finishing it.

I'm hardly in the know as the commentators previous, they seem to be versed. but I do wonder as to whats stirred the nest in that region, I know it wasn't just the Soviets.

Thank you Mr. Bacaon for being hands down the best and most honest poster on this site. I always look forward to what you have to say.

I am convinced that the war mongers are doing all they can to start a war with Iran. . We have already callapsed financially, and the economic collapse is under way as I write this.

39.68 million Americans on food stamps considered to be a healthy, recovering economy? In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts that enrollment in the food stamp program will exceed 43 million Americans in 2011.

According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings were reported on 367,056 properties in the month of March. This was an increase of almost 19 percent from February, and it was the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began issuing its report back in January 2005.

Banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.

Wealth is draining out of the United States at an unprecedented rate.

U.S. government is projected to have a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit in 2010,

According to one new report, the U.S. national debt will reach 100 percent of GDP by the year 2015.

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently told the U.S. government that they are going to need even more bailout money. So what does it say about the U.S. economy when the two “pillars” of the U.S. mortgage industry are government-backed financial black holes that the U.S. government has to relentlessly pour money into?

43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement. Tens of millions of Americans find themselves just one lawsuit, one really bad traffic accident or one very serious illness away from financial ruin.

The mayor of Detroit says that the real unemployment rate in his city is somewhere around 50 percent.

The bottom 40 percent of those living in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth.

In March, the price of fresh and dried vegetables in the United States soared 49.3% - the most in 16 years.

Richard Russell, the famous author of the Dow Theory Letters, says that Americans should sell anything they can sell in order to get liquid because of the economic trouble that is coming.

1.41 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009 – a 32 percent increase over 2008. Not only that, more Americans filed for bankruptcy in March 2010 than during any month since U.S. bankruptcy law was tightened in October 2005.

Thr US debt can never be paid off, nor can it be inflated away. We will see QE until the currency is replaced.

This is a small list of problems facing the US economy.

War with Iran is certain, and will require a national effort. Those who run the empire are salivating for the opportunity to start up the draft, ration resources, increase government power over the economy, etc...

While it recognizes the limits of US power, this NSS refuses to acknowledge that second cold war has started in earnest, this time between US and China.

Fiscal and economic constraints by NSS fail to recognize the threat posed by mounting Chinese forex reserves that US helped to create when it opened up US consumer market to cheap Chinese products.

Now China has US by the tail - US businesses are hooked to huge profits that cheap Chinese products generate for them as a walk through any Walmart, Sears or Home Depot filled with cheap Chinese goods attests to and US government is hooked to huge investments that Chinese government makes in US treasuries.

China is also buying up world’s natural resources with its huge forex reserves which also will pose a challenge to the resource needs of future American generations as well as other nations. With ever increasing forex reserves, China is going to become a lender of last resort for many a countries and many a companies in the world, thereby accumulating corresponding political clout as well. Burying its head in the sand, NSS fails to recognize the massive significance of this impending change.

Nixon’s China embrace to counter Soviet Union has come back to haunt US with the rise of China to challenge US just as Reagan‘s embrace of Islamic fundamentalists to counter Soviet Union in 1980s Afghanistan came back to haunt US in the form of 9/11 attacks.

The West will desperately try to reverse the rise of China but will be largely unsuccessful. Little could Mao or even Deng have imagined that their followers will beat capitalists at their own game. Lenin used to say that ’capitalists will sell us the ropes with which we will hang them’. With the West selling such ropes (in the form of technology transfers), China has proved that Lenin quote quite prophetic.