And rightly so. Hegemonies do not last forever. Even dominance of a marketplace or an oilfield is not certain from year to year or even week to week. I always suspected that we could not remain immune from the dangers which threaten the rest of the world . . . And we are likely to find out that all the missiles in the world can't protect us from the threat of biowarfare and that our big bad technocratic economy can be shaken to the ground within minutes.
Ignorance is the first enemy.
Regaining a sense of realistic control begins, for me, with learning. Additionally, I want to know a whole lot more about our recently past foreign policy and our current realistic options for future foreign policy. Here's hoping we have one. Remember . . . That means that we are all, collectively, responsible for the policies of our government.