Whining imperialists
CounterPunch
by Saul Landau
U.S. bases, as Chalmers Johnson assures us in Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (2007), are platforms for attacks on every other nation. …. Johnson, once an ardent Cold Warrior, now despairs over what he once saw as defense and now understands as naked imperialism. “History tells us there’s no more unstable, critical configuration than the combination of domestic democracy and foreign empire. You can be one or the other. You can be a democratic country, as we have claimed in the past to be, based on our Constitution. Or you can be an empire. But you can’t be both … The causative issue is militarism. Imperialism, by definition, requires military force. It requires huge standing armies. It requires a large military-industrial complex. It requires the willingness to use force regularly. Imperialism is a pure form of tyranny. It never rules through consent, any more than we do in Iraq today.” (04/09/07)
http://www.counterpunch.org/landau04092007.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military-industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saul+Landau
by Saul Landau
U.S. bases, as Chalmers Johnson assures us in Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (2007), are platforms for attacks on every other nation. …. Johnson, once an ardent Cold Warrior, now despairs over what he once saw as defense and now understands as naked imperialism. “History tells us there’s no more unstable, critical configuration than the combination of domestic democracy and foreign empire. You can be one or the other. You can be a democratic country, as we have claimed in the past to be, based on our Constitution. Or you can be an empire. But you can’t be both … The causative issue is militarism. Imperialism, by definition, requires military force. It requires huge standing armies. It requires a large military-industrial complex. It requires the willingness to use force regularly. Imperialism is a pure form of tyranny. It never rules through consent, any more than we do in Iraq today.” (04/09/07)
http://www.counterpunch.org/landau04092007.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military-industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperialism
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saul+Landau
rudkla - 10. Apr, 16:25
