Do you actually believe what you posted?
Of course. I believe that most of the rapid decline of our country's power, influence, wealth, can be attributed to 2008. History is a continuum of course and the causes also were laid prior; but it is what was done to "fix" the problems that caused our current weak position while burying us under a staggering load in the future that has to be first removed in order to recover.
Add to this domestic and economic loss, Obama's foreign policy nightmares and...
Every war has costs, there's no way around that, but I don't think is quite the simple, single cause of all that's wrong today that the author does.
thanks for your reply.