Eighty years ago there were all sorts of “powers”. None really super-powers but they had a bigger stick. Great Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan and the US. Post WW II there was just the US and Russia. Now it’s just the US.

But you wouldn’t know it from the record. We haven’t been on the winning team since since the sign off in Tokyo Bay. There was Iraq but they basically gave up.

We spend more on defense annually than the next ten or so countries combined.

The F35 Joint Strike Force Fighter project alone cost $400B and counting and is a massive boondoggle to boot.

That is more than several countries defense budgets combined.

We have eleven carrier groups. Most countries have one or none.

We collect email, web surfing data and financial transactions from terrorists and innocent civilians world-wide.

We kidnap and torture terrorists and innocent civilians world-wide.

We can launch a hellfire drone anywhere in the Middle East. Killing terrorists and innocent civilians region wide. Read the rest of this entry »