>>But hopefully everyone, enemy and friend has learned from it
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>>Yup....a great lesson....we won.....that's what happens when America finally gets pissed.
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>And what do you do when russia gets pissed? or any of the other nations who posses nukes? Up then you were the first and only one, nowerdays there are many more nations controling a nuke.
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>>To answer your question. I would not know what they'd do, but probably they'd go through the UN and NATO and search military support at their friends and try to find causes and a way to take the problem at the root rather than seeding more. They certainly would not react in blind rage. Because we know, it does not solve anything.
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>>See #1....we won.
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>Did you? You lost a lot of credibility in the world. You lost an awfull lot of money. You lost a few thousand american soldiers. You caused the current global crisis and are losing jobs by the millions. You lost a lot a faith of your friends. You seeded a lot of new potential fanatic islamic terrorists by stirring in a pot of cultures you don't understand. You put the friendship with a lot of historical allies at risk.
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>The political course of the last 8 years has been devestating. You might be winning a military battle, you might lose everything else.
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>You will sowe what you seed.
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>At least I have hope for the american people, by choosing for change. I have hope that under a strong leader they can get rid of the bad image they have gotten during the bush era. I have hope they will concentrate on doing doog things again. I have hope that the US allies will take the US on the right path again, after a bad trip.

You crack me up sometimes Walter :o)

An interesting paper you might enjoy:
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/files/faculty/51_Is_The_US_Subprime_Crisis_So_Different.pdf