@ Ayanami: I was just going with what my teachers taught me, and most taught me that the reason the middle east is pissed off is because our involvement with Israel.
@ Tenchi: I'm not being selfish, I'm just thinking about whose going hurt more in the long run in a disaster. Haiti is hurting i know, and although I feel bad for them, we've given enough. For godsakes its not like they were a crown jewel to begin with. Why should we spend the time and money building up country that will just destroy everything in a riot when something pisses them off, or when some jackass dictator takes office. That would be like buying the Shroud of Christ, then leaving it to be guarded by a pyromaniac with a lighter.
The US has failing Infrastructures that have gotten too out of hand to fix cheaply. Look at what happened to New Orleans and the Hurricane Katerina thing. If they had maintained things better, the Levees would have held, and more water would have been pumped out if they were maintained.
We have outdated, water and sewage and electrical systems all around the US.
We have HUMAN s**t running through old damage pipes along side our drinking water also in old damage pipes, both with roots stabbing into them. Our drinking water has lead in it and other impurities that are not removed with Chlorine. Our water treatment plants are at full capacity, and not everyone has updated to Ozone cleaning (UV radiation to kill what Chlorine won't) We risk another outbreak of Cryptosporidium like what happened to 400k people in the state of Milwaukee in 1993.
The city had two treatment plants, a north and south side one. The outbreak was mostly to the south, meaning that the southern plant was the source of the outbreak. The first man to die from the parasite was an aids patient, and his death was contributed to the virus. However when the outbreak happened, and people were diagnosed with the parasite it was later revealed that the parasite was able to multiply a lot easier in aids patients. Most of the deaths caused by the outbreak were aids patients. At the end of 2007, the CDC estimates that 468,578 people were living with AIDS in Americ. 400k people were infected with Cryptosporidium in Milwaukee alone, What would happen if a large scale outbreak should take place? Because more people with aids are living longer, and more people are diagnosed with it then are dying as time goes by more and more people are at greater risk.
California is also at risk for their water being contaminate. One earthquake will destroy the levee built by armature farmers in the 30's that separates the clean drinking water of half of California from the ocean's salt water. For 2 years the water would be contaminate with salt, and virtually undrinkable.
If its not our water and waste, its our power consumption.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_2003 We use more electric then the Grid can handle, and although wikipedia doesn't mention it, one of the problems with the computer bug was because the US hadn't fully upgraded from the old fashion Switchboard.
The US right now is in danger both economically and physically. We are nothing more then a domino that has been surrounded by all sides with other dominoes just waiting to tip over and cause a chain reaction that ends with us face down.
I Don't have as much faith in the other countries of the world to help us when the time comes. Especially since all the ones who can
"afford it" are no better off then we are in the long run.
The world is in shambles, and it might be the cynic in me, but we're all screwed it just a mater of who goes first.
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