well, the usa is already doing that to its own citizens - what do you think is the biggest yielding crop in the USA? Marijuana
Fuck the US. Fuck the US. Oh, why bother? They're going to lose the next one.
Depends when it is. For the next few decades, Fort Kissinger, L5, will be able to hold the rest of the world hostage with particle beam weapons, imposing the Pax Americana, a KFC in every village and Britney on every TV. Then comes the Sino-American War, where the Chinese flatten US cities by launching really big rocks from their moon bases, and the American Empire ends.
Mind you, I'd probably rather live in the American Empire than the Chinese one; at least dissent and dissention are tolerated there (for the most part).
Brilliant.
Why not bomb them with tapeworms?