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Originally Posted by Broadsword2004
The U.S. projecting power did not lead to it losing its economic hegemony, and I would argue the U.S. still is the economic hegemon.
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Your opinion vs mine. There's no real arguing between our two views. To better explain mine I would say the trillions spent in OIF, and the national focus on winning OIF after it started could have been focused elsewhere (EDIT: I'm not saying that after it was started we should have quit early. Rather, that because it was started the manpower and money it required grew exponentially.)
OIF was and is a good example of us projecting. Preemptive war by definition, is a projection of power.
The WTC attacks had a deferential affect on our economy, and I don't ignore that. Yet OEF and OIF were two completely different wars.
Now think of adding serious efforts in Iran to this mix. To truly make sure that their Nuclear capabilities are off the shelf and to completely free there people up to be able to vote like we want, would require more preemptive actions.
I'm saying, what about America?
We could argue that America is still the economic hegemon but we would both have to agree that we're nowhere near where we were in 2004-5-6-7-8. Those aren't just recession years.
I think that illustrates my position on Iran.
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