Future of America

Just when you wonder that things have quietened down in Iraq, Karbala has become a flashpoint of secterian violence. A Car bomb outside a shrine in the Shia Holy City of Karbala has once again set Iraq on fire. Now, this comes after several weeks when no major incident took forth in Iraq. And to top the tensions off, Iran is one step closer to becoming nuclear, thus widening the scope of the conflict in the Middle East. With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process not moving forward, it seems as if, the US is going to be in real trouble as far as its plan for the Middle East is concerned.

When American troops pull out, in say another three years or more, their psyche will have been disintegrated to Nightmarish proportions. Now, that the whole world views America as suspicious, it has lost the Legitamacy, wich it otherwise had during certain conflicts in the Cold war. This is the prime reason, that the US will suffer more for its conflict in Iraq then it ever did during the 15 or so years of Vietnam.

With US casualty figures increasing by every attack, the American administration is indeed worried. In fact, this war might result in the starting of the Decline of the Republican Party. Just as how the Civil War in the 1860's was detrimental to the Democratic Party, the Iraq conflict could be the for the Republicans. George.W.Bush might perhaps be feeling the ineffectivity that a Lame-Duck president has, because he is not able to go anywhere forward with his plans to end the Second term on a high.

Even on the Domestic front, the economy is slowing down, Warnings by the Federal Reserve Chairman suggested that the World's Richest economy could be heading for a slowdown, and thus the mood of the economies all over the world is depressing. Perhaps, the stresses of War and the risk of increasing inflation have contributed to another tough period for the people of America.

This has indeed, and without a doubt shown, that War can affect the economy of a nation, which in turn affects the people of Society, and thus leading to the disintegration of the psyche. It took a War in Iraq during 1991-92 to erase the wounds of Vietnam. Now, in the first half of the 21st century, will a War with Iran be the antidote to cure the wounds of the Iraq War? Perhaps, America might be the only country to wage a War in order to cure the wound of another War.

America might end up losing all legitamacy in the eyes of the world. Then possibly, in the coming decades, under the Democratic administration, the policy of Isolationalism might be advocated. But, if this happens, one wonders as to how America will conduct themselves come 2008-09, when a New administration takes over, thus New ideas. America has had Geniuses in the past to get them out of their own created mess. This decade desperately needs one, fast, for if not found, then the diminishing of America's Power might begin.