Oh, they just might be able to find some other country that could take our place...
At this point in time, we have the Chinese and Japanese holding up our government bonds and GSE's. We have the ME holding up our oil needs. We have Vincente Fox and Mexico holding us hostage with our border. And...we have a globalist corporatist government (on both sides, I might add) which has a long range plan to incorporate everyone's economy and labor (don't forget fungible labor which is a key element in globalism-hello Gold Card)which eventually, so they believe, will result in a happy world of intertwined relationships and no war.
To which I say: Been there. Done that...and it doesn't work.
It just depends upon your viewpoint; global or sovereign..