The US is propped up by affluent states to maintain world economic stability just as Europe is propping up member countries & the US propped up its financial institutions & corporate giants. A country that relies so heavily on debt is not a smart country as we saw with the GFC & Americam insecurity is reflected in their gun laws that were put in place during the War of Independence. A country where 1% of the population has 40% of the wealth & on a graph the poor do not even register.
http://www.oneutah.org/2013/03/top-1...ericas-wealth/
They still have the frontier mentality of the cavalry arriving trumpets blowing, guns blazing, killing the indigenous natives to save the day. Only to discover the natives were happy with their religion, codes of moral conduct, despite tribal differences, knew how to live in harmony with their land & were just defending their right to sovereignty. Why did this happen? Gold, farming land & oil. Nothing has changed. America is the only country where over the last 150 years every generation has had the ability to participate in war at home & abroad. We should note the rhetoric of NK & take the opportunity to plan contingencies in the eventuality of an event.
I have many discussions with my son on security issues as his business , in London, advises governments & corporates on security risk assessments throughout the world such as the current one in NK. His speciality is American foreign policy since the Cold War.