On Sep 10, 2010, at 4:29 PM, SA wrote:
> To extend your analogy, the problem is how do you construct a consistent time-series for this? In 1945 the number of countries whose asses the US couldn't kick was 1. Now it's zero. Yet people still talk about decline. So it seems like there was a break in the series somewhere.
Has the U.S. kicked the ass of Iraq or Afghanistan? We've fucked them up, but we haven't "won."
Doug