Barack Obama at Arizona State University:
"We've become accustomed to the title of military super-power, forgetting the qualities that earned us that title......We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get-rich-quick schemes that got us there."Yes, USA does appear to have forgotten that to be a military super-power, you have to have dominance of the air, and destroying the country's manufacturing base of wide-body and fighter aircraft is a pretty stupid thing to do. USA appears to have forgotten that it wasn't government regulation and profligate spending but private enterprise that helped give the US economic dominance. I agree with President Obama: people who forget these kinds of things are really stupid.
