Well, maybe that's the metaphorical takeaway for the US overall that I was groping for in my earlier post re the Belvedere's disinterment. Note the lead of the article I cited: "A concrete vault encasing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried a half-century ago may have been built to withstand a nuclear attack but it couldn't beat back the natural onslaught of moisture."
So how's this: The US has been encased in a national security state since WWII and has escaped atomic incineration only to see its economy and culture rot away from within, due to the parasitism of the military-industrial complex and the self-induced paranoiac terror of the war *on* terror. No question, the US itself would be in much better shape had they not buried it.
Carl
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