Why do people talk about the decline of American power? Where is the evidence?

[mrstickball]

MDMAniac said:

mrstickball said:

They are a superpower with superpower problems, but few superpower solutions that America has been afforded - namely democracy and a general history of non-aggression.

Damn, I spilt my milk reading that. Do you really believe this, lol? US has the most powerful military since end of WW2, and it's been constantly practising it, you know? That's one of two main reasons why it became the greatest country on this planet, the only superpower atm (and the other reason is huge wins from WW2 itself). And I'd say actually it's lack of such tradition which is one of main problems China will struggle with if ever to become superpower. And right now they are far far from its definiton, see how West is throwing them off Africa, and they couldnt't do a thing against it. It's soooo superpowerish, lol.

You do realize we've been a nation since 1776, right? We've intervened in wars for about 75 of those 235 years. And for the worst offenders of war, we've been dragged into conflict by others. I'd say that would constitute a 'general history', given that we stayed out, or attempted to stay out of other conflicts that were waged for the totality of 235 years of American history.