I don't have any communist friends, nor any who are 911 Truthers. What associations do is force exploration into someone's positions on issues.

The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource

You, like most Libertarians/worshippers of Paul, have a laughably simplistic view of the world I shed so long ago I forget when it happened. I will now deal with you point by point. 

On the one hand, you claim you don't understand how the US can be seen as an empire, and on the other you claim the the US projects its power into the world every single day. How do you resolve these two stances?  This way: if we wanted, we could FORCE the issue, blow entire air forces out of the sky, and muscle our way through nations on a daily basis, yet we do not.  We could simply demand landing rights in multiple countries and force our way onto their territory yet we do not.  Take the Phillipines for example.  When they asked us to leave, we did.  Ditto France.  We are leaving Ecuador because they want us gone.  I would suggest if we WERE an empire, as you seem to think, well, we would have bombed Manila and Quito and demanded we stay there against the will of their people and government, or marched through Paris and deposed de Gaulle to keep the French bases.  Yet for some reason we didn't.   We've shut bases down voluntarily all over the world.  And at those bases we DO use, we PAY for the privilege (except in the case of the Japanese, whose government pays for all the bases we use there). 

You seem to think the United States is Great Britain of 100 years ago, yet it is not.  We do not colonize people and nations in this day and age; we ask permission to do various things.  Even when the SLORC of Burma turned down humanitarian aid, we did not force the issue, even if just one aircraft carrier could have done that trick.

2 20% of 1.3 billion is more than 75% of the entire US population

If you think this large an urban population isn't a significant world economic player, than you're kidding yourself.  Maybe you should highlight where I said China was not significant.  They ARE, they just aren't this Leviathan you are depicting.  They have very serious upside and potential.  They have come a VERY long way from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.  But I have been to China and have seen the issues they face. 

Are they major world economic players?  Yes.  Do they have severe problems?  Yes.

Infrastructure continues to be a problem for much of the countryside.  They face a problem, due to their old one-child policy, of having a population get old before they get rich (which they aren't; this crap I heard about them having the world's third largest economy in the world during the Olympics is BS; Brazil's is bigger than China is yet I don't see you or many others whining about Brazil).  Political unrest can yet be a major showstopper; occasional flareups do occur in the countryside and things could get ugly there. 

You didn't prove me wrong

You absolutely did not disprove my final point.  Jumping up and down, throwing a tantrum like a five year old, screaming this over and over does not refutation make I intended to say there is no way a terrorist could physically destroy the US, thus having "no country to worry about" is an entirely bunk point. It would take 100,000 days to kill off the US population if we had a 9/11 scale attack every single day. The country as a whole has no physical, existential, terrorist threat.  Really?  We didn't kill every single Japanese yet we brought them to heel.  Nor did we commit genocide against the Germans, or many other nations.  We barely fired a shot at the Soviet Union and it collapsed due to its own contradictions and a mighty shove from the United States.  The country DOES have a physical, existential terrorist threat and I have witnessed this on deployments.  I would rather have the terrorists try and take their shots at the military for I know our soldiers, sailors, Airmen and Marines will kick their asses.  You, on the other hand, content to stick your head in the sand and hoping The Big Bad World Just Goes Away, would rather our cops try to stop them after they have killed a few hundred or few thousand people.  I'd rather not live in a nation with 300 million people waiting to be slaughtered.  I'd much rather live in a nation where the Bad Guys of the world know that if I as much as get a hangnail while visiting Cairo, for instance, for business or pleasure, that it will be at their great personal risk.  If people understood this in 2001 perhaps the World Trade Center would be alove and well today.

You did point out that terroists could cause an economic shakeup. This is true, but that is not the kind of financial crisis that brings down an international superpower.  Really?  It is entirely possible No international superpower in history has ever been brought down by terrorist attack.   Instead they tend to go down due to financial ruin of the systemic variety (nations growing too large, incurring huge national debts, shifting as a population away from production to consumption, etc).  Again, your laughably simplistic thinking shows itself.  No international superpower has ever been brought down by one of those things alone.  Take Rome.  You could consider the Germanic and Hunnic tribes that brought it down to be terroristic in a sense.  But other rot was setting into Rome to make things worse.

Are you implying the United States is shifting away from production to consumption?  I will have to let many people in Everett, WA know.  As well as Cupertino, CA.  As well as a bunch of people in the South Side of San Antonio, even more along the Port of Houston...or ALL OVER Houston, for that matter...hell, the ENTIRE DAMN COUNTRY. 

The national debt is a problem and a moral one for me (hey, I have to balance MY checkbook, why can't the government) as well as cost saving (think about that 15% of the budget that is WASTED on interest!).  But so sorry, making the United States a whiny, isolationist, disengaged world laughing stock that is hermetically sealed off from the entire world is not the cure.  May I suggest that the problem is NOT the United States defending itself and its citizens with offense and rather with the government spending money on things like this and people either not knowing or caring?  (I like music and all and donate to them.  But why must the federal government pay for them???) 

The Olympics are now under way in Beijing.  May the people of Beijing get thoroughly sick of hearing The Star Spangled Banner.  May the Beijing Olympic Committee run out of U.S. flags for the medal ceremonies!  USA!  USA!!  USA!!!