American decline

Here is a completely retarded essay about America's relative decline in the world. A quote:

As the early 20th-century European scholars of geopolitics realized, because a vertically organized region contains all climatic zones year-round, each pan-region can be self-sufficient and build a power base from which to intrude in others' terrain.

See? Stoopid. Why do I link to crap like this? Perversity? Boredom? To demonstrate how actual people out there "think"?

Here is a much better article about some of the economic challenges America now faces. Read that one instead, unless you're looking for a laugh/grimace.