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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Agreed Paul, it won't be any time soon, but I refuse to think they're out of the race altogether. Troubles come and go, and even if theirs are fixed in glacial time frames, they will be back. They have too much to lose as a nation. They may relinquish their superpower ranking for a few years, but once they eventually stop spending a small country's GDP per day on the current conflict and bring them all back home it's got to help their bottom line. War is business - except for when you're in it yourself. Their mortgage scandal and loss of several banks hasn't helped them out lately either. All will repair itself given time - lots of time maybe, but time.
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If the Republican Party get back in, don't bet on it. The Democrats have turned out a rather disappointing lot, but you only have to look at the Republicans to see that the fools in there now are as bad, if not worse, than Bush and Co were. Expect to see some really hard times for the US for the next 10-50 years if the present way of things keeps going. War is business, even if it is your own involved. There's billions being made by certain companies, but you can bet your bottom dollar the economy there won't see too much of it. Bush and his mates making more money for themselves.
It wouldn't surprise me if the US abandoned the ISS. Nope, they're too busy sticking their nose into other people's business and starting wars to make money for the elite (...business as usual...) than to worry about things like the space program, education, health, social welfare etc etc.