anyone questioning future of us as world power

Interesting interview on ABC radio yesterday..This guy has some interesting ideas of the global picture in the coming century

http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/10/23/2722490.htm?site=brisbane

"US political scientist and strategic thinker George Friedman founded his private intelligence company Stratfor in 1996.
His predictions in his book The Next 100 Years: a Forecast for the 21st Century are backed up with economic, military and geographic data.
Those predictions defy all the conventional wisdom on where the world's headed, with surprising forecasts for Turkey, Poland and Mexico."