Pure capitalism is, of course, bound to fail. The U.S., thank god, does not embrace pure capitalism. Unfortunately it embraces something no better. So the U.S. will eventually fail, but that is a long, long way off. In the meantime, the U.S. will continue to borrow money to pay for very expensive and sophisticated things that are sent abroad at great expense and then purposely destroyed. They even train people, at taxpayer expense, to go with these objects, and set them on fire, figuratively speaking. Some of these expensive objects are manufactured to be dropped from great altitudes and exploded near the Earths surface, killing nearby creatures and destroying property. The destroyed property is them sometimes replaced at U.S. taxpayer expense. From a global perspective, this is not an especially popular activity, nor is it looked upon as being wise or sensible.
If the U.S. was at all interested in winning friends and influencing people in favorable ways, they could probably find something better to do with their time and money. To keep building things and then destroying them is not helpful to either the economy or the living standards of U.S. citizens. Neverheless the U.S. persists in this destructive behavior because in the United States people are constantlty told that making things and destroying them, and in the process killing people you don't know, is honorable, and that god is on your side when you behave this way, just as people in other countries are told that exploding a backpack in a crowded market place is honorable and will assure ones place in heaven.
Until the U.S recognizes that doing these things is neither sensible nor honorable, it will continue down its present road toward both moral and financial bankruptcy, just as other countries before have followed the same destructive path leading to a bad ending, a very bad ending indeed.
If the U.S. was at all interested in winning friends and influencing people in favorable ways, they could probably find something better to do with their time and money. To keep building things and then destroying them is not helpful to either the economy or the living standards of U.S. citizens. Neverheless the U.S. persists in this destructive behavior because in the United States people are constantlty told that making things and destroying them, and in the process killing people you don't know, is honorable, and that god is on your side when you behave this way, just as people in other countries are told that exploding a backpack in a crowded market place is honorable and will assure ones place in heaven.
Until the U.S recognizes that doing these things is neither sensible nor honorable, it will continue down its present road toward both moral and financial bankruptcy, just as other countries before have followed the same destructive path leading to a bad ending, a very bad ending indeed.