Read the article by Victor David Hanson. He briefly addresses USA’s hyperpower and other unnamed countries’ hypopower status…just to mention one detail.
Source :
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson072503.asp
From his article let me quote most of his conclusion…
“These are still perilous times. But if anyone on September 12, 2001, had predicted that 22 months later there would still be no repeat of 9/11; that bin Laden would be either quiet, dead, or in hiding; that al Qaeda would be dispersed, the Taliban gone, and the likes of a Mr. Karzai in Kabul; that Saddam Hussein would be out of power, his sons dead, and an Iraqi national council emerging in his place; that US troops would be leaving Saudi Arabia, Arafat ostracized, and Sharon seeking negotiations; that new Middle East agreements under discussion — and all at a cost of fewer than 300 American lives” (granted he’s forgetting a few Limeys, Canucks, and bravest of the brave Poles[They survived and now thrive, after 50 years of fearing and spying on the Germans and the Soviets.]) "— then he would surely have been written off as a madman.
“So far we have lost fewer lives in Afghanistan and Iraq than we did in a single day’s butchery in the Marine barracks in Lebanon. But unlike that terrible sacrifice, this time Americans are fighting back, winning, and changing for the better the lives of millions in the most remarkable, ambitious, and risky endeavor since the end of World War II.”
But there’s a lot more you are missing if you don’t check it out!
