Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

>>10

read >>11. That's pretty much what I would have said.

Besides if California was nuked the prevailing winds would irradiate most of the western US including the entire Gulf Coast. Hundreds of millions would die within a decade.

How bad do we want China? Not that bad I think. There is no economic gain available in military hegemony, for the US.

Btw, good point about ABM Mr. 11. It's fucking retarded. It provides 0 protection against terrorists (who will ship the bomb in via the US's sea-transport system, and use the ultimate guidance system, a really pissed off human being, not an insanely expensive and wildly unreliable ballistic missile) and starts a new global nuclear arms race. :P

As to your other point Mr. 10, I can't imagine how the US economically dominates the world in a way that the EU doesn't.

tl;dr? The US is not the sole superpower in any sense of the word.