Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?

Well, I wonder if my fears and suspicions over the past few years are becoming reality. I have thought that the "War on Terror" will be the death of American society, and it seems that I may have been closer to correct than we first thought. Does anyone think that we would be in the same financial predicament that we are now if we had not engaged in an unjustified war with a people who are technologically and socially behind us by at least a hundred years?