[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for that link. Ghengis made a very good point.

[Ghengis]

I'm not so smart. My opinion is nothing more than a distillation of market and political observations that is there for everyone to see. Too many in both arenas have publicly wished for our country to be weakened in these same arenas. It is obvious who will be enriched.

You can go down the list of what we've been faced with in the last generation or so. Our elected leaders nearly always end up making the worst choice for our economical and physical security. That is not accidental or incompetence. This seems like a 50 year plan to me.