[SmokingJoe]

Difference, though, is that those countries were not great military powers, much less superpowers, much less the world's only superpower.

The USSR was a superpower.

“I shudder to think of a world in which the United States is unable to project its superior military power.”

Russia is still the second most powerful military power even after losing the other 14 states of the former USSR.

“That said, if the split was a “virtual” one — where, because of a return to federalism, states were allowed to reinvent themselves in their own image — the union would be preserved and the one great task of the federal government would be to focus on national security and military defense”

That could work.

[fightinJAG]

You know, you’re right. I’ll have to ponder that.

However, I still wish to see the union preserved. I just want to have a limtited federal government and be able to live in a state that is not socialist or worse.