THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE U.S. EMPIRE (Chalmers Johnson)

[Zlatko Waterman]

DEMOCRACY NOW and interviewer Amy Goodman talk to Chalmers Johnson, CIA analyst, college professor , author of the BLOWBACK trilogy ( just completed) and historian:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl? ... 27/1454229



--Z

[e_dog]

yes. he's brilliant.

checkitout.

[jimboloco]

like he says, duh,
we got am empire
an if we gonna keep it on
we gonnasee martial law someday here in Amerika

It makes sense
I mean
right now we got a pseudo-dumbocracy
the opposition has no real power
they won't cut funding for the Iraq War
cause it would:
1) hurt the troops (like they ain't being hurt now?)
2) "they would just get the money from other sources" (like the slush fund for disappeared Pentagon monies)
3) signal to the enemy our lack of resolve (like they know we are resolute if not distracted by bullshit neo-cons)
4) take monies away from private moneymaking contractors (like that is a no no)
5) signal limits to our imperial expansion (like that would be a rational thing to do?)
6) dismay narrow minded right wing fear mongers (like, the sky is falling)
7) and :roll::roll: (like, where have all the sweet and sassy rich daughters gone, twitting their twats in obliviion whilst Daddy sneers at the nation, his private counsel with Gawd to leading us onward into armeggadon)

shit maybe laura and the twins could take a holiday to Messopotamia