[DTA]

Of course it is good thing. The problem is how U.S. squandered Cold war victory and sunk New American Century even before it began. In 1999, to be more precise.

The rise of Russia and BRIC is the result of combined efforts of incompetent governent and criminal Wall Street class, and vice versa.

[lbryce]

. A picture may be a thousand words but "squander" in this context, in post-USSR-America is worth ten thousand pictures.