Flood of information for my mind to absorb..

I was listening to NPR, Airbus a European company pays its employees in Euros but sells most of its air planes in $. Boeing has the fortune of the opposite. This is very important because in the last several years the US $ has decreased in value 45% in relation to the Euro.

Part of me believes that life runs in cycles, I guess its only fair that way we all get a chance to rise to the top. Yet is the compromising of America expedited by the Iraq War? How many Americans can point out Iraq on a globe? How many of the soldiers that are stationed there understand the dynamics of the religious sects of the nation or alone the Islam faith?