Meanwhile we've been pouring gas on fires in the mideast and SW Asia for over 16 years, totaling over $7 TRILLION because ~3,000 died on 9/11/01 and yet 45,000 Americans die every year from lack of health care. Our constitution MANDATES congress to provide for the common defense, but homelessness, untreated disease and lack of the basics of survival are far greater threats to American lives. You're FAR more likely to die from preventable causes domestically than by terrorism of any kind. This empire, like all empires, has overreached while neglecting real needs at home, and it is dying.
http://www.globalpossibilities.org/the-end-of-empire/