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Originally posted by AlienQ
I read plenty.
Why do you think I know that America is heading for hell in a hand basket?
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Seriously, Alien. In your reading of American History did you skip over the past 150 years? The Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish American War, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, two world wars, the Cold War, 31 recessions since Lincoln (more than the number of presidents), Vietnam, Korea, Civil liberties strife, the Cuban Missile Crisis (!). Each of these crises in addition to the above were greater threats to this country than anything going on right now.
In fact, not only were the crises of the past much worse than those of the present, the US finds itself - with the fall of the USSR - for the first time in it?s history with no global competitor.