Does the Generals' Revolt in recent days indicate that America is coming apart?
466918
Ex-Generals speak out because they (unlike the active duty) have FREE SPEECH, for which I'm grateful!  Speak! Speak!  \n\nWars come and go; presidents come and go; congressional members come and go; and long term, nationial powers ebb...\n\nIf you want to worry about total collapse, why not worry about our obscene National Debt, gross moral decline, disappearing industrial base, and shrinking middle class?
965764
I wouldn't call it rhetoric so much as reality. They've had years to get their own country under control and they've proven to be too incompetent to do it. The civil disorder is indeed their own fault, and perhaps we should walk out and let them stew in it.
64194
I think America is in a bad way right now, but I don't think that the blame can be placed on one man.  Even if he is the leader.  I believe that he is doing his job the best he can with what he has to work with.  Lack of support and name calling by the American people is not going to help the situation.  If people have the solution then they should contact their state rep.
591910
That would depend on what history you're talking about. They have not been in the country that long, so don't expect to see anything about them in studies about the revolutionary war. Until recently they have simply "melted in" to the country and become Americans like many other immigrants. This relatively new business of dividing us back into ethnic groups is meant to make it easier to hide real intentions behind "political correctness" and give each group a different "enemy" to be angry with rather than the real culprits who prance around in Armani suits and Rolls Royces while shouting about social injustice.
571257
i don't know what the final outcome in iraq will be, but i have made this very point to people i know. i heard the same thing in 1969 myself. we were in an unpopular war then, gas prices were soon to rise, people, for the most part, were becoming disillusioned with our government, jobs were soon to start drying up and many were to move overseas, interest rates were starting to rise. sounds like deja vu all over again today, doesn't it?
521197
I hope not.  The liberals are getting worse about disrespecting anything that we as Americans used to believe in, including our soldiers and veterans.
1083845
I believe that most Americans are under the illusion that they truly have free speech, true democracy. etc..   Compare the actions of previous actions of dominant empires throughout history.  Have we transformed or are Americans fooled by a cleaver rouse.
293741
More possibly a new American civil war. Or revolution. Heck, we, this "nation of immigrants", wiped out the original inhabitants of this country, and locked the rest of them onto reservations. I'll bet the true native Americans are getting a real chuckle over all this. We're worried about losing "our" country, but we seem to forget we stole it in the first place. So maybe now somebody else is getting ready to steal it from US! What goes around comes around. We've become a little too self-righteous for our britches anyway.
913978
Well let's see.  As we the citizens are required more and more often to change our ways to appease someone else and not the other way around as it should be, I think America is being assimilated.  Like the Borg say, "Resistance is futile!"  Something needs to be done to stop all this nonsense.
770949
You should stop seeing America as divided.  There are varying views from every direction.  Try to ask more productive questions.
1024319
This country has already fallen apart and is in chaos.  It is only a matter of time as to when we are under complete UN control and lose the rest of our Constiutional protected rights.\n\nIn Liberty, peace and love,\nEric H. Smith\nwww.erichsmith.com
976359
The only way for the country to go from where we are now is up.  The Republicans have proven that they are out of touch with the American public and can not effectively run the country.  So now maybe America will have a fighting chance to improve.
497723
Things have already gotten out of hand.  We have Marxist dictators in Cuba, Venezuela, and now Bolivia.
516390
George Bush and his cronies have taken America into a dark place. America has lost its morality, its sense of purpose, and any justifiable claim to be leader of the 'free' world.\n\nUnder Bush, in a remarkably short period characterised by the complacency of the American people, America has become a failed State. \n\nThese are the words of Noam Chomsky:\n\n"Failed States are unable or unwilling to protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction. They regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, hence free to carry out aggression and violence. And if they have democratic forms, they suffer from a serious "democratic deficit" that deprives their formal democratic institutions of real substance. \n\nOne of the hardest tasks that anyone can undertake, and among the most important, is to look honestly in the mirror. If we allow ourselves to do so, we should have little difficulty in finding the characteristics of "failed states" right at home".\n\nMr Chomsky is a controversial character, but these particular words hit home.\n\nCome on America, take a long and honest look in the mirror. In every respect, Mr Bush had made America an uglier place.
752014
at some point when all the jobs are gone, yes, currently no, as the powerful have all the resourses, and too many people beleive their b.s. so they follow blindly. Currently however people haven't wised up enough to unite and become a force to be reckoned with
494394
That, my friend, is the problem with those people that think that way.  They do not think about the fact that they enjoy the freedom to speak out against their government because millions of men and women have died defending that right.  Anyone who ever says taht we should just dump the military all together is woefully ignorant of the truth.  not only does the military fight to rpeserve our rights, and show the world what it feels like to have those rights, but it also provides millions of jobs in not only the US, but around the world.  Having a massive military helps our defense and our economy in a big way.  If we got rid of the military all together in just an instant (historically speaking) the US would fall into absolute turmoil economically and would likely sink bacck deeply into the depression that plagues us still today.  Gettign rid of the military woudl make us defenseless to attack by our enemies, powerless to defend our friends, and knock out from under us a major economic leg that we stand on.  All in all, it would just be plain stupid to get ris of the military.
1000150
Gee i seem to understand that America had a few problems ourselves after the revolution.  I mean like a previous answerer stated Germany and Japan were not fixed overnight.  The biggest difference between Iraq and Vietnam is that in Vietnam the Democrats would not let the military fight to win, but were more interested in making money on our dead 58,000 American soldiers than doing what needed to be done to help democracy succeed, but now the Republicans, much to the anger of the liberals, have turned the conflict over to the military so that they can do what they need to in order to win.  In wartime someone always makes money, but something you need to keep in mind is that most of the major conflicts America has been involved in the Democrats have squarely planted us in them.  You are so concerned with getting us out of Iraq, and so worried about the soldiers dying there, because Bush got us there, but you have said nothing about the American, and allied troops that still get into firefights in Bosnia!!!  Clinton put us there 11 years ago, and we still rotate troops there, but no says anything about Clinton's screwup!!  If you are going to ask these kind of questions, then at least have the balls, and intestinal fortitude to ask about ALL the places AMERICAN troops are dying in!!!!!