{"article":{"id":218959,"heading":"US: security's bottom line","author":"Tom Engelhardt","created":"2008-07-17 09:22:39","modified":"2008-07-17 09:22:39","last_modified":"Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:22:39","article":"<p>In abandoning empire, the US could follow Britain and be a republic. Empire could turn out to be quagmire or nosedive. Narcissus fell in love with his reflection and drowned (cf. \"Nemesis\" by Chalmers Johnson). <br><br> to read the article by Tom Engelhardt published in: Le Monde diplomatique, June 2008, click on <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2008\/06\/06ussecurity\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2008\/06\/06ussecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@lycos.com","link":"http:\/\/www.mbtranslations.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Just 15 numbers tell the history of the past seven years in which a once wealthy and relatively secure nation near-bankrupted itself, pursued chimeras and funded chaos-causing wars that left it poorer and less safe than ever before.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/07\/218959.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}