| Badassbab said: America has been through doom and gloom before. Civil War and the Great Depression spring to mind. It will come back. Weaker than before since there are other rising world powers and economically it's not dominant like it is militarily but even militarily it's been challenged. It's having a tough time putting down the Taliban insurgency who are mostly armed with 40 year old Soviet weapons and have limited financing and this has hurt it's prestige. |
Meh, Militarily we haven't been challenged in a long, long time. Taliban insurgency is not related to military strength in anyway. We could rumble through the Taliban blowing up every building, location and position where we think we would find terrorists. We use restraint because this isn't a war as much as a transfer of power. This isn't military force as much as a police force.
Militarily, we rumbled into Afghanistan / Iraq and had virtually no resistance.
