If Iraq teaches us nothing else, it has to be that our media, politicians, generals who are politicians and NOT soldiers and "progressive society" have made us far from invicible.
The next 500 years Dark Age. Peak oil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil THE END OF CHEAP OIL http://dieoff.org/page140.htm "Are We 'Running Out'? I Thought There Was 40 Years of the Stuff Left" (http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/) Ice-cream makers frozen out as corn price rises http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article2080599.ece WORLD'S OIL WILL RUN OUT IN TEN YEARS (http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=0423} http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2005/Burgan-Field-Kuwait12nov05.htm Biofuels. President Bush, who with Britain wants to see a huge increase in corn-based ethanol, called in January for the annual production of 35 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol in the US. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article1917927.ece) Tartars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack http://www.newmanreader.org/works/historical/volume1/turks/lecture1.html http://www.authorama.com/ancient-china-simplified-4.html
Don't worry Dave74, Russia has this amazing ability to turn a huge advantage into a piece of shit in no time! I don't know if it is their addiction to vodka, crime or just the sheer idiocy of the race but they have ALWAYS overplayed their hand. Next time won't be any different. As for Bush being an idiot. What do you call a voting public who voted for him ......TWICE!!! You yanks, like the Russians, must posess a 'stupid' gene too!
Alex: You are correct. I've watched elections since Truman and could not believe how stupid our voter have become. It tells how weak our people are on the inner personal level... agpilot