US a failed bankrupt state?

More truth than poetry: "Britain cannot afford to be dragged down by a failed bankrupt state like America, that has lost both the moral and economic highground." (comment at) http://bit.ly/eDUaDT
By the Germans this time: "The Irish are being sacrificed like the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at Cape Helles in Gallipoli," ibid http://bit.ly/eDUaDT