The Cost Of Empire: How America Has Failed Itself
The United States now runs the risk, so familiar to historians of the rise and fall of Great Powers, of what might be called �imperial overstretch�: that is to say, decision-makers in Washington must face the awkward and enduring fact that the total of the United States�s global interests and obligations is nowadays far too large for the country to be able to defend them all simultaneously.

by vasudeva 1080 Reads
on Fri Jul 25 2008 Add to your ClipSwarm
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pjp56Fri Jul 25
 
Darn fine find.
You're a politically astute guy , vaseduva.
You don't see a whole lot of folks out there that have even the vaguest notion
of what this guy has explained so succinctly.
It's NOT that complex. Developing empire is just an extension of planned
obsolescence.
Just ask a Soviet, or a Roman , or a Byzantine.
 
 
vasudevaFri Jul 25
 
It is pretty good, isn't it? I actually read the entire thing -- and was vaguely surprised about it.
 
 
sugarslimFri Jul 25
 
A little early for doom and gloom isnt it? Especially when the information is far beyond pertinence, maybe if you posted something along these lines four or five years ago it would have meant something. Welcome to the party.
 
 
vasudevaFri Jul 25
 
Haha, always looking out to excuse that tinfoil hoard of yourn.

Four years ago you were posting thin, calamitous dreck, yes. As analysis it lacked depth of any sort and as sci-fi fodder it lacked creativity.

Unless you think 'broadening tops' and 'UFO photographs' held some special significance for us that we're just now beginning to see?
 
 
sikki_nixxFri Jul 25
 
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals.

It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.'



*harsh-reality tear*

and i'm gonna have you go ahead and find all relevant economy articles that somehow don't make my forehead crash into my keyboard 2 minutes in, k?
 
 
sugarslimFri Jul 25
 
I made no mention of my own prior posts and frankly I dont know what they have to do with yours other than they serve as an easy distraction. I do apologize if my past postings weren't interesting enough to pique the swarm's interest, or should I say your interest.

For the record, 'broadening tops' was posted by punxsutawney phil and my posting record shows no indication of UFOs, take your libel elsewhere.

POSTED '04: VINDICATED
 
 
vasudevaFri Jul 25
 
Uh?

I like your continued detachment from reality. It has such a unique quality to it. It's so robust, yet so self-aware and self-excusing.

I do realize that the tiny gap between the errors you make and your shame about making them is your secret playplace, and I don't want to ruin it for you too much, but I will note that even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I believe I've made this point before in IRC amidst your Rothschild/CFR/Bilderberger/goverment-mind-control/buy-gold/apocalypse/etc/etc links.
 
 
sugarslimFri Jul 25
 
i harbor no shame, i not only made the UFO post, i also forgot about it, and due to my incorrect search terms, posted egregiously, though in light of former astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell's testimony, I think that the story bears merit. Not that UFOs have anything to do with your article, nor do any of my former posts, until of course you brought them up in some attempt to deflect attention. good try. now stop.

The issue is, that article is a remix of some very old news, and you congratulating yourself over finding it, is a joke. The rest of the world has been living that reality for some time now, so again, welcome aboard.
 
 
vasudevaFri Jul 25
 
An odd facet of your 'obsession with secret knowledge' disturbance I've noted is that you require acknowledgement that you were in on the secret knowledge before anyone else. So far every post you've made in this thread has been essentially you capitalizing on the opportunity to display this behavior. Why is this part so important to you? I'd guess that just being 'in the know' isn't good enough if there was a time others knew and you didn't.

In any case, now that some actual troubling events are occurring on the world stage, you must feel a painful mix of vindication that you were 'right' 'all along', and franticness that some doom-and-gloom ideas are getting air-time but without a 'brought to you by sugarslim, who knew wayyyy before you did' byline.

FYI: When I say 'frantic', I envision a small dog left in a kennel in an empty house.
 
 
LORDKAHUNAFri Jul 25
 
I liked the part where they talked about planned obsolescence, and the Japan/Germany industrial focus.
 
 
IHateRegisteringFri Jul 25
 
All that history before them and not a Xenudamned thing learned.
 
 
frankenphrogFri Jul 25
 
I can't wait to move back in with Mom and Dad, plant a poverty garden, and start raising chickens and rabbits for food. This is going to kick the Great Depression's ass! What should we call it? The Greater Depression? I'm going to go tune my banjo.
 
 
PutaMadreSat Jul 26
 
The Big Suck would work.
 
 
BeachGoatSun Jul 27
 
Nuke 'em, Fuck 'em...it's The American Way, along with the rest of historical civilizations. We quit manufacturing, we have sent all our skilled jobs overseas and given our menial jobs to illegal foreigners. For over five decades I've watched this shit, and Goldwater was right...the only way out is through chaos and domination, just like the last few 'Police Actions'.

Enjoy South America...it's just starting up. By 2010,11, we'll be neck deep in 'Strategic Control'.

Meanwhile, with Grandcritters on the way I'll have to educate them, because WonderBoy thinks his kids are immune to real life.

I'll be remembered as the Asshole Grandpa that ruined their childhood, then ate himself into cholesterol obsolescences.

 
 


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