All empires fall: Who or what  will bring about 'the decline and fall' of the U.S. empire?
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Why did the Roman empire fall?  Do some research into history and find out why past empires fell.  Power struggles and oppositions for power; dictatorial structure of governments, too many laws structured over the years to oppress the citizens into rebellion, economic greed by the rulers.. bickering by  rulers as to coveting territory and its natural resources... History and Anthropology is full of many reasons that helped the decline and fall of a government.  It is said that a government will START to decline after 200 years of its inception. It may take another 75 years to fully see it fall.  Could be a reason for the "grass roots" citizen to start to become concerned about our country and how it is governed... don't you think???
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The Project for a New American Century is about to fall apart.  The world is headed back to a multi-polar world, not very stable and it will be compounded by the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world and the peaking of oil.  We're in for a bumpy ride. :(
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Americans will die and will keep on dying, as long as their politicians want to get mixed up in other countries' affairs, and find enough fools to vote for them. \n\nHistorically, all countries that were strong and rich used those assets in never ending wars, until they became exhausted and poor. Another country then took over and the cycle carried on. I think it is in man's genes to want to rule others
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Boy, there's a debate.\n\nShort Answer: The United States, and it did it by spend the Soviet Union into oblivion. The USSR suffered the fate of most empires -- it overextended itself and ran of the resources necessary to sustain its empire.\nBut the US did it at a terrible cost. We are now stuck with a military-industrial complex that is bleeding us drive and could very soon threaten our own superiority.\n\nSo philosophical answer: The Cold War isn't over yet, and we could still lose.
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I have been saying this to anyone that will listen!!!  People look back at the Vietnam war as a failure of the US.  The US went in there and tried to implement the form of government they saw best.  And now we are trying to transform the government of Iraq?  See the comparison, this war will be viewed as another US failure.  How many more wars will the world tolerate that Americans step in and try to force their ideas.  These wars also hurt our economy.  Are these failed wars the beginning of the end for the US as the leading "empire" of the world.
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I asked a question similar to this several weeks ago.  When looking at the similar patterns of history (such as the fall of Rome), it is apparent that the US will fall just as the Romans did.  \n\nAlthough many people in the US are unable to see how close they are to the greed, ego-centricism, denial and arrogance of ancient Roman culture, perhaps it will become more apparent when the society starts to fail and becomes lost.
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Switzerland, but they've always kept well out of any military involvement. The don't even have much of a standing army, but every man is trained in the use of guns, and guerilla tactics.\nThe US will go the way of all empires, the bad thing about this, from a European perspective, is that they probably will drag us down with them. It is not really wealth that destroys a nation, but relentless expansionism, as the US has practised ever since its founding.
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Yes.  According to Divine Prophecy, America is destined to be destroyed.  Please refer to the Holy Bible.  Isaiah 24:1-6, 16-21\nAlso read Malachi 4:1-2 and Revelations 12:13-17...  There are many references in the Bible that predict the destruction of America.   In terms of when, it has already begun.  I know you've heard of the plagues of Aids, Global Warming, the moral decline of this Nation.
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I'd guess they all dispersed, did their own thing and faded away to do their own things.  Without a "leader," nations will fall.
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We get rid of all americans and jews (or at least their leaders). From the very begining these people started wars. History tells us that.
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Chicken Little is exactly right.\n\nHave you actually read the internet articles?  \n\nit starts with:\n\n"its attempt to establish a world empire dominating every nation on the planet, the U.S. has exhausted its ability to finance the expansion and the country now faces imminent financial collapse. From all indications, it looks like 2006 will spell the end for America."\n\n\nWas this article written from a Cabin in Montana, or a second story apartment in France?
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the downfall of turkey, the breakup of china, and the overthrow of grease..\n(greece)
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None. Israel, which is a holy place for the three major monotheistic faiths, is also one of the most conquered places in the world. Every civilization has proved to be temporary; Babylon fell, Persia fell, Greece collapsed, Rome fell, the Vatican lost its reigns, China and Mongolia have been crushed before, Britain has lost much influence, Soviet Union has fallen. And like my Greek teacher, I believe America is suffering its downfall and it wont reverse itself unto greatness.
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I think it will be like Vietnam where the US won militarily in terms of the number of enemy troops/insurgents that were killed(US lost 58,000 soldiers, Viet Cong lost over 1.5 million) but did not acheive its goal to stop the communist takeover of Vietnam. The US will no doubt kill dozens of insurgents for every soldier it loses in Iraq but public opinion in the States will eventually lead to troop withdrawal and the insurgents may overthrow the undefended and overwhelmed democratic government and install a theocracy like Iran
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To all those looking at USA and hoping it goes down, please take note that if we in the USA go down we will not go down quietly. It is not our style. \n\nWe will almost certainly take down some large fraction of the rest of the world with us. That is not a threat or even a wish, it is just realism.\n\nHope for the USA to change? Fine, I'm with you. Hope for the USA to lighten/loosen up a bit on world affairs? I don't agree, but I understand why you feel that way. Hope for the USA to go down, to fall, to fail? You are asking for one whole pile of worldwide collateral damage. So watch out.
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Its been happening for ages, Gangus Con, Julius Cesar,Adolf Hittler, and now George Bush. Its the never ending struggle for Power. What seperates Bush from all the others is that they didnt try to mask there intensions. Just about every SuperPower in history lasted about 100 years before there fall. As I see it, the U.S. has been the "Big Boy on the block for at least that long give or take a decade. If history repeats itself as in the past, were due to take a fall. Sooner or later, all Bullys fall.
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Actually, we've moved away from empire. We used to have more foreign territories and be more aggressive supporting the Monroe Doctrine in the Americas, but we got rid of most of our territories and have taken a more hands-off approach to issues in the Americas.\n\nNow, every important country has gone through various stages, including expansion and empire type stages. And there is no certainty that the US will not go through the same thing in the future. But we seek no empire - heck, most of us would like to dump Puerto Rico - and we've given sovereignty back to many of our one time possessions / territories, e.g. Philippines, Panama canal, etc.\n\nThere has been no concentration of power in the executive, considering the recent power grabs by the legislature / judiciary in oversee the President in exercising his powers, such as trying to limit his ability to conduct national security intelligence gathering by wiretap or phone records.\n\nThis kind of power jousting has been going on for 225 years, and isn't about to stop now. Actually, the judiciary has been the worst offender regarding usurping power most recently. And after Watergate, Congress had attacked the powers of the presidency.\n\nAt this time, the executive and legislature have regained a parity. I do not see the executive having gotten out of control in the least.\n\nIf anybody claims that today we have some kind of dictatorship, they are peddling nonsense, and have a shameful ignorance of US history.