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Originally posted by tabs
Now how does someone with my superior intellect , explain it to ...well a person like yourself. ... When U challeged me to go "toe to toe" with U, U showed pique my dear man.
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Qutoes from "The man with superior intellect", few years ago when Iraqi mellé was just starting:
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Originally posted by tabs
The USA is the NEW ROMAN EMPIRE.....don't you guys get it...no other nation has wielded as much power since Rome....and BTW thats also George Wills opinion as well.
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Originally posted by tabs
I told you BOYZ...level the place with everybody in it...that is the only thing an Arab understands...
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I remember when tabs was all wound up and excited, touting that everyone should be bombed, that Bush should invade Germany on a elephant, that France should be bombed beacuse they didn't wan't to support Iraqi intervention, that USA will be next Roman Empire and rule the world both military and economically etc. Then came posts about his troubled childhood, Las Vegas losses and buffé's, cracking houses and now doomsday profecies about US of America.
I see a pattern here:
1. Something happends on a global scale
2. Tabs reacts on it according to his own beliefs, mostly in a way he would like them to happend or overreacing on his own fears. Interesting fact is that his prophecies are never moderate...it's either boom or bust.
3. Things develop their own way...no world war III or collapse of goverment but just in a manner that you would expect. Economy either goes up or down, armed conflicts bur out, new appear.
4. Tabs readjusts to new facts and starts pumping new prohpecies based on new situation, one more extreme than other.
What we see here is a blogged toughts of man who would like to see himself as important and toughtfull, enjoying the fact that there is a public that actually responds to ramblings. Quite entertaining but off-target most of the times, to say the least.
My opinion:
No , America is not going to fail. Iraq was a mess, yes. Most of foreign people told you that, yes. After 9/11 many folks like tabs were all wound up and wanted to bomb everyone and everything, understandable. Now things are getting in perspective and some adjustments will happend, when military ventures that cost a lot need to be amortized.
Cities won't explode. You might not be able to fill upp the SUV as cheap as before and some folks will loose their money depending on financial decisions they made.
Dollar might loose it's value a bit (I guess around 20% more in next two years) and some export industry will be hit. I also believe that one of giants (GM or such) might tank over in following years. We'll see a dip in economy (totaly predictable as economy was going upwards last few years) and that will hopefully lead to some sort of minor "new deal". This will lead to reorganization of bussines sector as a reaction to new situation and hopefully lead to more competitive US industry when dip ends.
In five years we'll see upturn again and I'll do my best to try to buy that 993TT that I dreamt about
And yeah, I don't believe republicans will win next elections.