Yo, Willie Tex, here's an update on the law of (hopefully) unintended consequences.
When looking at the big picture, the outcome of costly wars are rarely that either of the combatants come out on top. The typical outcome is that some third party does (recall how the communists in Vietnam beat the French). The big picture today? The so-called United States of America has reached a point in it's evolution where it can go no further. It's engine has run out of gas (no pun) and it is in the process of imploding (don't beat yourself about it, Tex, sooner or later it happens to all civilizations). The US' process of imploding follows the standard template: it becomes an increasingly paranoid dictatorship - which eventually undertakes steps to ensure it's own self-destruction. The key event in this process for your country is well known: six years ago the US Nazi wannabees blew up three skyscrapers with some three thousand people inside them - and blamed someone else. What makes the situation today different from, say, the days of Adolf Hitler, is that the US' perceived influence (and once solid goodwill around the world) has conspired with today's level of technology to create a dictatorial invasion of privacy unprecedented in western recorded history. There is an irony here, that the legacy of your country - the so-called land of Liberty - is the implementation of a world run by a global state of totalitarianism, where anyone daring to think dreams of freedom are branded "terrorists". Nice shootin' Tex. P.S. Before you run of to your local office of the Homeland Scaring Department, rambling that you may have found a "terrorist" on the net, just remember this - your country will not only loose the war, it will actually cease to exist in any meaningful resemblance to what today subsists on the North American continent.. Jai Guru Dev
