Chalmers Johnson: Portrait of a Sagging Empire (tags)
Abandoning the hundreds and hundreds of bases, large and small, may be necessary for the survival of the US.
"Why the US has really gone broke" by Chalmers Johnson (tags)
"It's not just that our tastes for foreign goods, including imported oil, exceed our ability to pay for them. We are financing them through massive borrowing. Our short tenure as the world's lone superpower has come to an end."
"An empire that threw overboard its basic democratic values and convictions came out of a land regarded in the last centuries as the cradle of democracy..Unlike the Romans, the Americans concealed their goal of omnipo-tence behind phrases of democracy.."