An American magazine has rightly raised the question of why the US has spent $50 billion fighting an enemy, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, that lacks a conventional army, air force and navy. It cites a survey saying the American public wants a 50 percent cut in the US military spending, the US has a total of 500 bases around the world and its armed forces budget exceeds that of the rest of the world. These facts and figures are quite astounding and show the US penchant for world domination. In the past decade and even before, the wars that have been waged on Iraq and Afghanistan, and its military presence in the Muslim world bear testimony to its desire for global hegemony. The driving force is the urge to appropriate natural resources and wealth of occupied states. It is very much apparent from the invasion of Iraq that is being rightly seen as an attempt to seize hold of Iraqs vast oil resources. The ongoing sabre-rattling against Iran should be seen in the same context, as the US has its eyes on oil reserves. Its military presence in the Middle East again is aimed at controlling the worlds oil riches. Similarly, the invasion of Afghanistan, a defenceless state, provides the best example of US brandishing its military might to exploit its as well as Central Asian resources. But the time is not far when this madness for bringing the world under its thumb will become the undoing of US empire. The financial crisis in the US was a telltale sign of this wild goose chase that portends to adversely affect its superpower status in the days to come. Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen has recently warned that the biggest threat to their national security comes from fiscal indiscipline and mounting debt. It is time the US restrained itself especially its military industrial complex. Otherwise, its destructive pursuits could end up in an apocalyptic, global mayhem and chaos.