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In 2008, once the U.S. National Intelligence Council released its latest statement intended for the management of recently selected Leader Obama, it expected that the planet’s “sole superpower” might endure a moderate decline and a gentle landing fifteen decades hence.In his new book The United States of Concern, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans must wear their crash helmets and buckle their seat-belts, since the United States is on the road to a significant decline in a surprising pace. Engelhardt provides a savage physiology of how successive administrations in Washington required the “Soviet path”—pouring American prize into the army, war, and national security—and therefore assisted generate their nation off the closest cliff.This may be the surprising account of how concern was profitably shot into the national system, how the country—gripped by horror fantasies—was secured down, and how a brain dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America silently burned.Think of it whilst the account of how the Cold War actually finished, using the triumphalist “sole superpower” of 1991 proceeding gradually for that same leave whereby the Soviet Union left the Phase two decades earlier.