Beginning of the end
AntiWar.Com
by Nebojsa Malic
12/25/08
‘What comes next is anybody’s guess’ were the closing words of this column in December 2007. That had been a turbulent year, marked by a series of setbacks for the Empire on all fronts. Aside from the ongoing quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, even in the Balkans — the region handpicked for the demonstration of hegemony — things were not proceeding according to plan. Ironically, during 2008 the situation became reversed. While the Empire managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the Balkans, its grip slipped away everywhere else. If the purpose of creating an ‘independent’ Kosovo was to reinforce US hegemony, then it was a Pyrrhic victory, set against the rise of China, a resurgent Russia, a rebellious Latin America, and an economic crisis that shook the very foundations of the West. The sight of two shoes hurled at Emperor Bush by an Iraqi journalist during a press conference in Baghdad was just the finishing touch...
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=13949
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=quagmire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hegemony
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nebojsa+Malic
by Nebojsa Malic
12/25/08
‘What comes next is anybody’s guess’ were the closing words of this column in December 2007. That had been a turbulent year, marked by a series of setbacks for the Empire on all fronts. Aside from the ongoing quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, even in the Balkans — the region handpicked for the demonstration of hegemony — things were not proceeding according to plan. Ironically, during 2008 the situation became reversed. While the Empire managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the Balkans, its grip slipped away everywhere else. If the purpose of creating an ‘independent’ Kosovo was to reinforce US hegemony, then it was a Pyrrhic victory, set against the rise of China, a resurgent Russia, a rebellious Latin America, and an economic crisis that shook the very foundations of the West. The sight of two shoes hurled at Emperor Bush by an Iraqi journalist during a press conference in Baghdad was just the finishing touch...
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=13949
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=quagmire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=hegemony
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=economic+crisis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Nebojsa+Malic
rudkla - 26. Dez, 10:45
