US Empire--MIA

[NoFederales]

Chalmers Johnson, a professor emeritus at UC San Diego and an Asia expert, says he believes that few Americans are even aware of the extent of the military's reach and the profound influence it is having on policymaking in this country and public opinion abroad.

Johnson says the Pentagon's calculation that it owns or rents 702 bases in about 130 countries -- over and above the 6,000 bases in the United States -- is a gross underestimate because it fails to include installations in such places as Kosovo and Bosnia, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, and secret installations in Israel, Australia and England, among others.

Globalsecurity.org suggests US servicemen total 350,000 in 153 countries. We have turned the corner on leading economically to militarily coercing the world for its resources. Is this the kind of sacrifice that Americans--not assholes like Robertson, please-- believe servicemen should die for? Should we not be asking WTF we need so many servicemen scattered around the globe?

NoFederales

[lvx35]

1. Great questions.

People don't like to use the words 'empire' or 'conquered', but the fact is that once you have bases of a foreign military power in your country you are pretty much conquered, part of an empire. And this is all over the world, like you said. I mean think about it...can you imagine if you lived right by a chinese military base in the US???

I think its time to start calling this like it is. An Empire. And I think lives spent for empire are wasted lives. I think every soldier of George III who died fighting American revolutionaries was a wasted life, same thing in Iraq.