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American Empire: Ending or Beginning?

Comment by Larry Ross, May 18, 2007

Chalmers Johnson is an eminent US historian and gives us a comprehensive look at the American Empire today. In any kind of a normal world run by normal human beings with some established values and standards, the present disastrous trends would continue. Bush and his Republicans would be overwhelmingly voted out of office in 2008. But this is not a normal world and the Bush regime is run by people with few or no values and standards. They have already deceived Congress and the American people in order to start wars in which they have murdered over 655,000 people. That's very abnormal and unacceptable by normal people. Many NZ media would have us believe that these war criminals are perfectly normal and there is nothing to worry about. Like the American people, many in NZ have been grossly deceived by their media, both overseas owned and local, including the taxpayer-owned NZNBC TV and radio much of the time. I doubt if any of our media would print the truth about events as given below by Chalmers Johnson.

My own view is that the Bush Administration will stage a dramatic event, something like another 9/11, in order to stay in power and continue it's policy of endless "wars on terror" to achieve American expansionist goals with an objective of global domination. I think it will be either that or they will bow out as gracefully as possible and abandon their neoconservative plans. Given its spectacular fall in the popularity polls, its loss in the recent elections to the Democrats, and the exposure of many of it's frauds, schemes and personnel to various investigations, and its legislative steps toward a fascist military state, it will have to create some excuse it can use to continue,  silence the growing opposition and regain popularity. (See "False Flag Operations" on this site or Google it to see how they may accomplish this transformation). Unfortunately Chalmers Johnson and other well-known commentators like Noam Chomsky do not seem to have examined this possibility, at least not yet. After it happens will be much too late to educate the American people to guard against this possibility.

Pre-emptive wars and false flag operations depend on secrecy, surprise and public ignorance if they are to succeed and accomplish their objectives.  

The Bush Administration has a conditioned, misinformed public who have not been warned about thee disastrous tricks.

That is why I think they will be fooled again as they have been previously fooled about Bush crimes and many lies, including those to make war on Iraq.

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Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?

by Chalmers Johnson, May 18, 2007

In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem.

According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll , released on April 26, 2007, some 78% of Americans believe their country to be headed in the wrong direction. Only 22% think the Bush administration's policies make sense, the lowest number on this question since October 1992, when George H. W. Bush was running for a second term -- and lost. What people don't agree on are the reasons for their doubts and, above all, what the remedy -- or remedies -- ought to be.

The range of opinions on this is immense. Even though large numbers of voters vaguely suspect that the failings of the political system itself led the country into its current crisis, most evidently expect the system to perform a course correction more or less automatically. As Adam Nagourney of the New York Times reported , by the end of March 2007, at least 280,000 American citizens had already contributed some $113.6 million to the presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, or John McCain.

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