i personally think that american politics (and i am an american) have proverbally screwed americans. the biggest thing was the foreign policy. someone really dropped the ball, i mean its cool that we want to play peace makers and stuff but if we had not gone sticking our noses in other countries business, we would probably not be in this war on terror schtick, we would have been left alone. now we are on the brink of world war 3 with iraq, and south korea. these are indeed dangerous times we live in.