[Gods_Mercenary]

I never said we could attain superpower status, but that it would jump start our economy. And if you don't think our prosperity was almost totally due to the destruction wtought on the rest of the world by the two biggest wars, and instead due to a relatively small impact of refrigerators and T.V.s, the production and consumption of which were only made possible in the industrial prosperity directly caused by the aftermath of the wars, consult a historian. And I never said anything about the Vietnam era or even power in general, just that, if you want a good industrial economy, it helps to have all the competition taken out.