Superpower Syndrome: America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World - Political Science Book | US Foreign Policy Analysis | Geopolitical Strategy Reading for Scholars & Policy Makers

"The idea of apocalyptic martyrdom intensifies the ordeal of the killer as well as his claim to spiritual renewal." page 29."There has been some dispute about how significantly Arab fighters, as opposed to native Afghan warriors, contributed to the Soviet debacle, but there is no doubt that the victory was an intoxicating one for Islamists. Their miraculous success against a superpower---followed by the collapse of that superpower---could only mean that God had made them invincible. The considerable quantities of military equipment and financial support made available by the United states were dismissed in the exultant claim of (in Faraj's words) "jihad for the cause of god." More than any event, victory in Afghanistan contributed to an apocalyptic confidence on the part of Islamists: the existing world could be overturned and pure Islamist rule established."page 80Remember this book was written and published in 2003. We are now in 2010, and the collapse of a second Super Power is perhaps imminent. If the United States continues its collapse which it will, it will set up the Psychic in America similar to the Psychic of Germany after World War I, and the Islamic People will feel even more invincible and that God is on their side. They will then begin their conquest and then as in a chess game the west will capture their king.