The Decline and the Fall of the United States of Amerika as a super=power

Obama's latest defense budget signals a further retreat from military readiness at less than $500 billion, with corresponding manpower limits reducing the size of our military. According to Wall Street Journal foreign-affairs columnist Bret Stephens, 

"By 2017, the U.S. military will be an increasingly hollow force, with the Army as small as it was in 1940, before conscription; a Navy the size it was in 1917, before our entry into World War I; an Air Force flying the oldest -- and smallest -- fleet of planes in its history; and a nuclear arsenal no larger than it was during the Truman administration." 

That's not the sort of military that would suggest we're ready for a prolonged fight against radical and resolute Islamist forces. (To say nothing of our odds against increasingly militant and militarizing China and Russia)