Beginning Of The End

The Reverend Moon (Why are we calling him that? We don't revere him one bit.) like many would-be messiahs/world leaders, has a big interest in promoting fear. So when his UPI types the pertinent parts of the newest Nat'l. Intel Council report into a more convenient form for easy digestion by the hurried masses, you better believe they make it look bad for the good ol' U. S. A. 

And as fans of entropy, we're all for it as well.

Issue of the Day

U.S. intel panel warns of coming national decline

 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Now it's official -- sort of. The United States is in decline.

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"The world of the near future will be subject to an increased likelihood of conflict over resources, including food and water, and will be haunted by the persistence of rogue states and terrorist groups with greater access to nuclear weapons," it said.

The report is also an indirect but very explicit repudiation of the grand strategy of outgoing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the neo-conservative intellectuals who served them.

It clearly rejects their assumption that a new century of U.S. global supremacy, leadership and even control more total than any the United States enjoyed in the past is likely or even achievable.

Instead, the NIC report warns of an increasingly uncontrollable, fragmented world with strategic, military and economic power increasingly diffused -- and with the danger of local and wider wars, especially over scarce resources, greater than ever before.

"The international system will be almost unrecognizable by 2025, owing to the rise of emerging powers, a globalizing economy, a transfer of wealth from West to East, and the growing influence of non-state actors. Although the United States is likely to remain the single most powerful actor, the United States' relative strength -- even in the military realm -- will decline and U.S. leverage will become more strained," it said.

No. Wow. What a shock. Now there's really no reason at all to get out of bed tomorrow, is there?