Around them sprawl suburbs, cocooned from reality

[samiaseo222]

As individuals, even as a few elite units such as the Marines and the 44th Airborne, or fighting for their own homes as in the War between the States, they are as brave as any. But in the mass, they cannot stand and take casualties. They run away if given a bloody nose abroad. If America is a paper tiger, the paper is made of dollar bills. Seriously challenged, not for survival but for her global outposts, she will crumble. Simply kill enough Americans, and the rest will run. Internally, America is equally weak, behind her glossy façade of wealth. The cities are jungles into which few venture without need.

By cheap petrol and wealth. If either dries up, they phone number list will awake, angry. Outside lies a disillusioned, disenfranchised rural European-peopled hinterland inhabited by what is actually a God fearing peasantry, increasingly alienated by the Government and culture imposed on them by a deracine elite whose ideology is at variance with that of much of those who thus far have tolerated their governance. Like late Antique Rome, modern America is an Empire ripe for the falling. and, perhaps, replacement with an alternative to Empire, smaller, more homogenous and culturally alive communities an a more human scale.

That, not the endless rise and fall of Empires, must be where the last best hope of humanity lies. Empires choke on their own conquests, and fall, and with them, if they last long enough, which the British Empire did not, falls the nation which built them - where are the Romans or the Byzantines today? They benefit the conquered sometimes, the conquerors never, unless they are alike enough to become one nation, as Roman and German, Briton and Indian.