not all elites in States think in the same way as you do. I know the military-intelligence complex definitely do not want to give up USD-based global dominance so easily, even though all know that such dominance is declining quickly.
If USD depreciated into trash, it needs a free trade system to regain current account surplus and thus to regain the reserve currency status. My question is whether the European gentlemen (those hypocritical bunch, as nasty and dirty as those elites of the anglo-saxon nations of UK and US) willl allow free trade and the return of power to US.
To be frank, I am afraid we might see a global resource war at certain point in t he future. The Patriot Act is step 1 to control people's mind to build up consensus for the next step.