"Whether Obama or Palin is elected in 2012 almost seems irrelevant. Six more years of this and we will be finished as a nation, bankrupt and despised everywhere, our only legacy a network of seven hundred-plus military bases falling into ruin worldwide, meant to give us peace and prosperity but delivering on neither." Giraldi
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When I was a boy in the forties and fifties, we Americans effectively ruled the world. Militarily, economically, and politically our writ or will ran everywhere.
Now we are the clients of a tiny ethno-religious country in the Middle East that lives on our government "dole" and the remittances of our citizens. We borrow from China to give our masters the money they order our Congress to provide. Israel is a collossal political failure in the Middle East. The symbol of their failure is the wall they have felt compelled to build between them and the "terrorists." Nevertheless, we feel obliged to follow their desires in establishing our "national" policy in their region.
The ship of American power is slowly sinking. Our masters dictate to us policies that are suicidal for them and more importantly for us.
Giraldi is a voice in the wilderness. pl
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2011/01/19/serving-up-palestine-one-slice-at-a-time/o
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2011/01/pickering_hills/
