fine article George. Now the pessimist in me comments on this bit <<It's the beginning of the end of American empire. In historical terms, there are three basic factors
leading to the decline of empires. Take the Roman Empire, or that of Britain. A country overextends
itself. It becomes intoxicated with its might. Then, it becomes a militarist power that by sheer physical
force gets whatever it wants. That will exhaust its material resources>> History repeats itself, the cycle has yet to be broken,and if there is not a revolution of individualism in this country that breaks from the repetitive action of history nothing will stop this process of the Intoxicated with Itself Empire moving itself into exhaustion and collapse.
Dr. Marc Faber who i oft quoted, two years ago said the U.S. is the greatest power since the Roman Empire and will collapse like Rome, but faster, as history is moving in quicktime now.
The Extreme Right is what it is because Empire! makes their groins warm. A worthless lot, each and every one, "card-carrying" members of the Extreme Right.
i will say the same for the Extreme Left, as such i will not participate in any Peace demonstration organized by the group The Answer, they have an agenda, their philosophic roots be Stalinism(which happens to be Saddam's philosophic rooting).
But, in the end, the extremist, the nut-heads, left or right, i feel will bring all to a boil and the steam engine will blow to bits, and the good ship history enters again into a Dark Age, and the beat goes on and on and on.
Max, the Pessimist, because history has never ever learned from its past. |
