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Originally Posted by Kamui4356
I'd say your professor was wrong when he said it in the 70s. The 90s were good times for the US, despite having some issues. The cold war was won, and the US was largely unchallenged on the world stage. Though lately, he might not be so off. On that note:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/16/news...x.htm?hpt=Sbin |
He spoke in terms of decades and centuries... not just a piddling few years. He said it was kind of like the date assigned to when Rome "fell", no one really noticed it at the time, it was almost a century before it was obvious to the whole of Europe. Henry Kissinger basically felt/feels the same way ... it was one of the many underlying factors in Nixon (his president) going to China to get in front of the line to open up relations.