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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/28/104151/554

Todd describes the U.S. as a "superpower living hand to mouth," led by a ruling class "even more rudderless and clueless than its European counterparts," and incapable of achieving its global aims through repeated applications of "theatrical micromilitarism." Todd argues that the disintegration of American hegemony already is in full swing, and he predicts that the Bush American Administration and its neocon theorists "will go down in history as the gravediggers of the American empire."
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Great powers (such as the Habsburg, French, Turkish, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, British, Japanese, Soviet, and eventually American Empires) get in the habit of using military force to protect what they view as their broad economic interests, but in doing so, they divert investment from productive social and economic purposes into nonproductive military ends.
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2007-09-10 06:11:01 · 5 answers · asked by Clarence T 1 in Politics & Government Politics

The collapse of the American Empire is not over the horizon--an event lurking around a distant corner a few decades down the road. We are already in the very midst of it. It is like a staged train wreck unfolding frame-by-frame as we reflect in head-shaking disbelief on each day's news and on each new blunder by the Bush Administration.

2007-09-10 06:12:16 · update #1

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the country got closer to destruction thanks to clinton and lost more constitutional rights to john kerry and his lawyers than due to Bush.

2007-09-10 07:53:45 · answer #1 · answered by RockHunter 7 · 1 0

So you are saying that Bush is digging graves while Pelosi, Reid, Shumer, and the rest of the liberal Demonrats are waiting to push Americans in and bury them? Isn't enough that liberals have helped murder 45 million American babies since 1973? So now you want to bury the whole country and accuse Bush of doing it. You evil heathen liberal traitors make me sick.

2007-09-10 21:36:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Given that there is, and has never been, an "American empire" I'm going to say no.. something that doesn't exist can't collapse.

2007-09-10 13:33:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No. The socialist liberals already have that title. Think up something new.

2007-09-10 15:26:32 · answer #4 · answered by John himself 6 · 0 0

LMAO!

That is your "source", DailyKos?
Get Real! When you join us back on planet Earth, perhaps you can find a CREDIBLE source to back up your nonsense.

2007-09-10 13:25:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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