[Travis McGee]

Ping to #63. Any other prognostications? I'd like to hear your thumnails of how the next decade is going to evolve.

(Of course, "evolution" might not describe what is going to happen after we invade Iraq and / or suffer a WMD attack in the USA.)

[FreedomPoster]

#63 + some variation of #68, with perhaps the U.S. acting in the Imperial mode, rather than Europe or Japan. If the U.S. scenario comes to pass, it will be the beginning of the final chapter of the end of Republic.

Also - will the Chinese remain quiet through all of this? I doubt it, but then again, their leaders are pretty busy riding their own tiger.

[Savage Beast]

I will be surprised if Europe manages an effective defense against the Muslim onslought, even if dramatic terrorist attacks occur. I think that this will stimulate Americans to become more united in a common defense and will force North America, Russia, and India into an alliance that will become more and more overt in its opposition to Islamic imperialism and will also serve to keep China on a peaceful track to prosperity. I think that Muslim ambitions will subside when faced with a determined and overpowering Russian-American-Indian alliance. The alliance will cooperate with China in developing a powerful capitalist economy, and China will effectively join the alliance. Islam will be overpowered and overwhelmed by technology and communications and by a ubiquitous pan-world culture and will secularize and ameliorate.