The ongoing indecision of the U.S. Congress is making the whole world a much more dangerous place

In the past, the U.S. was always more decisive, especially after Pearl Harbor until maybe 2001. I would say 9-11 was when we began to become less sure of ourselves and indecisive as a country (at least in regard to congress).

Why was this?

I think it was because OSama Bin laden didn't lead us into a war. He led us into an economic trap leading to the bankruptcy of the whole Western world. It wasn't a war he wanted. He wanted the bankruptcy of the western world.

And in the Great Recession he almost succeeded. The method was simply to do something so outrageous that our reactions to this would be financially outrageous to and relatively meaningless which they were.

And because of this engineering feat by terrorists using our own wealth against us we almost had something much worse than the GReat Depression. Because The last head of the Fed who had studied the Great Depression said the causes of the Great Recession were actually much much worse than the causes of the Great Depression.

So, only because Bernanke had studied the great depression did we eventually come out of this okay in the end. We almost didn't make it (the whole free world and the U.S.)

So, my thought it is the embarrassment and unsureness of the Western World after spending trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan and not really accomplishing anything we set out to do.

However, the one thing we did succeed at was we haven't had another 9-11. But, everything else we have done hasn't really worked the way we wanted it to.

So, because of this it is not surprising that the U.S. Congress isn't as sure of itself as it was during World War II and under President Eisenhower from 1952 to 1960.

In some ways the U.S. stepping back is necessary because of the unbelievable military expenditures since 2001 worldwide. The war in Afghanistan is the single longest war the U.S. has ever participated in in it's entire history.