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Can the world afford a bankrupt superpower
Or: Is the U.S.A., the global Mubarak? You've read the headlines felt the reverberations at home and afar, What say you?

Postscript (February 17, 2011 at 11:12 PM):
Now who would have guessed that the American uprising would begin in Wisconsin? Here it comes, to a Statehouse near you.
I vote "yes", just because it appeals to my mischievous side.

But Tom Tomorrow makes the point better than I ever could:

Well, yes. The analogy between the US and Mubarak had not occurred to me, but good, lets play with a while.Both seem bankrupt in their power to provide an improving way of life for the many. I grant that he US Govt. is as much a hostage of diminishing resources and super-national interests as Mubarak was ours. 
I wonder whether the traditional method, going to war, is in the offing. This has typically worked to get folk lined up behind you. But can we or they afford it anymore? Lots of thermonuclear weapons are already bought and paid for, but lets not go there. 
We plainly see a hope for better  mobilizing many all across the Middle East. I don't see it here.

In response to Tom Kimmel
The Tea party, armed and dangerous, becomes the functional equivalent of the Anti-Mubarak foes. When U.S. Treasury offerings, debt, at 120 billion per month, ceases to entice foreign investors, the "fit hits the sham" and all the props and scaffolding-like housing and banking sleights of hand-crumble(as they have).What we have; plentiful food supplies, gasoline at the pump and entertainment on the tellie will not sustain civil order or continue to be delivered as bills go unpaid and the remnant of capital flees the scene of the crime-Wall Street(now up for sale to German Banking moguls) Cake, beer and circuses-the tools of the past- will not keep them down on the farm. (Too many historical metaphors to ignore).
This bankrupt country is held hostage by wealthy, (beyond measure) oligarchs, whose time will not come until the uprisen masses find them in an undisclosed location. Abroad.
Love the cartoon. The face is interchangeable but the real perpetraitors(sp) are faceless and unavailable for comment, but through hired stooges(aka politicians)
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