Re: Some good reading...
It certainly is. it is Heinlienesque, a definite scifi quality.
Somehow, I feel that the choices will be made for us by circumstance and we are all just along for the ride.
I enjoy the scifi series Farscape. The humanoid Sebacians are referred to throughout the known universe as Peacekeepers. They are obviously analogous of the US as we may become. A military culture that is alternately loved and hated by all, depending on their current mission.
These are interesting times.