Lucille
01-20-2013, 12:27 PM
The last days of US empire
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/01/blog-post.html
And both its soldiers and its enemies know it:
[...]
“Last month,” said one tribal elder from Gandamak, “some American officers called us to a hotel in Jalalabad for a meeting. One of them asked me, 'Why do you hate us?’ I replied, 'Because you blow down our doors, enter our houses, pull our women by the hair and kick our children. We cannot accept this. We will fight back, and we will break your teeth, and when your teeth are broken you will leave, just as the British left before you. It is just a matter of time.”’
“What did he say to that?”
“He turned to his friend and said, 'If the old men are like this, what will the younger ones be like?’ In truth, all the Americans here know their game is over. It is just their politicians who deny this.”
“These are the last days of the Americans,” said the other elder. “Next it will be China.”
Americans who still contort their minds and imaginations to justify their foreign empire are ignorant of history and blind to historical patterns. Now what was obvious to a few skeptics like me is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone around the world.
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to an unwarranted hubris on the part of Americans, particularly the pro-empire ruling class, because the "Morning in America" of the 1980s was a false dawn funded by credit expansion, not genuinely increasing wealth. In retrospect, the retreat from Vietnam and the Iranian hostage crisis appear to have marked the true inflection point.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2013/01/blog-post.html
And both its soldiers and its enemies know it:
[...]
“Last month,” said one tribal elder from Gandamak, “some American officers called us to a hotel in Jalalabad for a meeting. One of them asked me, 'Why do you hate us?’ I replied, 'Because you blow down our doors, enter our houses, pull our women by the hair and kick our children. We cannot accept this. We will fight back, and we will break your teeth, and when your teeth are broken you will leave, just as the British left before you. It is just a matter of time.”’
“What did he say to that?”
“He turned to his friend and said, 'If the old men are like this, what will the younger ones be like?’ In truth, all the Americans here know their game is over. It is just their politicians who deny this.”
“These are the last days of the Americans,” said the other elder. “Next it will be China.”
Americans who still contort their minds and imaginations to justify their foreign empire are ignorant of history and blind to historical patterns. Now what was obvious to a few skeptics like me is becoming increasingly obvious to everyone around the world.
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to an unwarranted hubris on the part of Americans, particularly the pro-empire ruling class, because the "Morning in America" of the 1980s was a false dawn funded by credit expansion, not genuinely increasing wealth. In retrospect, the retreat from Vietnam and the Iranian hostage crisis appear to have marked the true inflection point.