The Future of America under the American-led Empire

[SoCalDem]

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_4982.shtml

The Future of America under the American-led Empire: A Realistic “Sense of it.”
By Craig B. Hulet?
Feb 5, 2004, 19:40

I was asked recently to make a short, or not so short, statement of what I thought realistically may come about over the next, say, five plus years here on my native soil, America. Actually I am asked this all the time by a specific group of people, call them my circle of interested parties. I have always restricted such comments to very private segments of society as the mass of people, the masses if you will, simply are not ever ready for “reality,” in any form.



My take, for over thirty years, on where my country is headed consists of a two-fold approach: the first approach is to put forward sufficient data, factual information, empirical evidence all in a specific format whereby an individual will understand what may happen, has already happened though they may be unaware, and what ultimately they might do in the face of it; call this my optimistic approach. Or call it my public approach because the public, whenever they hear something never before heard, it sends the herd stampeding if one tells them too much “like it is.” Call it, if you must, not telling all-the-truth-the-whole-truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth-so-help-me-God! (Or feeding them pap, for those not ready for meat) It is something always practiced by most when speaking (or writing) to the petrified herd.



The other approach is more metaphysical I suppose, conjectural or suppositional. When asked to write about where my personal sense of it truly resides and “tell it like it is,” it is another question altogether. Nobody wants to hear this, believe it’s true and most cannot stomach it. Publicly it just isn’t done. Written? it is literary suicide; spoken? It is verbalcidal. The Question? What is this Empire we speak off? What will America and Americans face under its rule? What will it be, this imperial project? This is what I hope to address here.



"There is Tranquility in Ignorance, but Servitude is its Partner."


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[ixion]

1. wow... Hulet really nails it...

here's a couple scary quotes:

There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing. (Source: From “Parameters” "http://carlisle-www.army.mil" , Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College)


“Finally, the German nationalists, the right-wing conservatives, who venerated “honor” and “heroism” as the central characteristics of their program. Oh God, what infinitely dishonorable and cowardly spectacle their leaders made in 1933 and continued to make afterward! One might at least have expected that, once their claim in January proved illusory--that they had “tamed” the Nazis and “rendered them harmless“-- they would act as a “brake” and “prevent the worst.” Not a bit of it. They went along with everything: the terror, the persecution of Jews, the persecution of Christians. They were not even bothered when their own party was prohibited, and their own members were arrested.” (Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler, FSG, p.131)




When you look at it this way, you see the uphill struggle that we have before us. And Sisyphus thought he had it rough.

[SoCalDem]

2. We have been sitting on Pandora's Box for years, and our

"Curious George" could not resist opening it in search or "oooh ....shiny"..

[tom_paine]

3. Intense article

I don't agree with some of it, but the "bigger picture" is spot on.

Only the details are left to be worked out.

:kick: