China and India ready to pass on the inside track.

The US is no longer looking at being the only superpower or even a superpower at all because of Georgie's driving full speed into the Iraq wall and his creation of a mega-deficit.

" The US need not be destroyed or suffer a collapse as did the Soviet Union in order to lose its top global position. It could well come about with a sufficient and permanent loss of US global political, economic and military leverage (the ability on the ground on an ongoing basis to successfully seduce and/or otherwise compel the world's players either to align with or else refrain from opposing US interests and goals), as the reader will see in the analysis that follows.

One must consider that most of the vectors potentially leading toward a loss of US global dominance are traveled by insidious progression, not all at once in a dramatic event. Such vectors lead to the incremental loss of the key underpinnings of the current US global position in preparation for more dramatic developments at the very end of the US-led unipolar order."