Well is no so much a "failure per say" but the fact that Americans has now come to the realization that US lost its superpower status already and now it has to compete with emerging nations that will fight to gain that status.

China is one of them, they have the capital and liquidity that US doesn't have to bargain for contracts with other nations without having to ask for a loan before doing it.

The sooner the America patriots learn this littler fact the sooner they will open up their eyes to what our nation has become under the leadership of greedy moronic politicians.