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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
One huge advantage to the US that will never go away is the fact that we are on our own continent - physically separated by two large oceans. This physically insulates us from a large-scale attack like almost no other nation. I know we didn't design it this way, but it works out pretty well in the long run.
-Wayne
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This has not been true for 50 years. Ever since the USSR developed ballistic missles and nukes, those oceans might well not have existed.
Furthermore, oceans are a very small barrier to terrorist attacks from without ...like 9/11 or from within...like Oklahoma City.
Personally, I beleive there is no way an outside attack (as postulated here) can divide the US, quite the contrary. Whenever the US is attacked from without, people pull together.
Likewise any attack from within, like OC, is not likely to spur mass rebellion but rather revulsion.
Civil unrest, due to class, race, etc is nothing new in the US and people will either oppose it or endorse it with varying levels of interest and commitment. The only thing constant is change. The society of today would be scarcely recognizable to the Americans of 1906. That is part of the strength of the country: the ability to embrace change, be it technological or cultural. The only constant are the values laid out in the constitutution and bill or rights, and even those can be amended.
In short, prophesies of doom are usually greatly exaggerated. It surely is the case now, as it ever was.
That is all.