The very wars that the U.S. is fighting to "protect our freedoms" are part and parcel to the very thing that can bring the U.S. low. I have no doubt that the strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan is to surround and control Oil deposits in Iran and Iraq. As my regular readers know, I am a recovering chess fanatic. In chess you have an opening, a middle game, and an end game. If Korea and Viet Nam showed us anything, it is that our policy makers have little concept of middle game, and NO CONCEPT for an end game.
What is the ultimate outcome for Iran and Iraq oil? Answer: In less than 20 years these nations will not be able to export ANY OIL as their domestic consumption will consume ALL of their production. The U.S. is risking the demolition of its currency, and with it a debt default, among other very, very unpleasant outcomes... in order to kick the (Oil) can down the road a couple of years.
This is the very definition of insanity.
And while the loss of lives, treasure, and moral mandate that the U.S. will suffer as a result of prosecuting these inexcusable wars, these will only be a contributing factor in the coming political disaster. You see, the U.S. will "win" these wars, whatever that means, but will lose ALL because of the debt created by the Wars, Medicare, Social Security Medicaid, Disability, Farm Subsidies, et al...
There will be a day of reckoning, there will be an "End Game", and there is nothing to be done for it because our policies and political phenomena have created a huge class of the delusional or just plain FOS (the perfect example? Pro-Choice Vegetarians. These knuckleheads race to save dogs in Haiti and then back again to help hack an unborn baby to death. These people represent the worst mankind has to offer, yet are firm in their delusions of superior intellect).