Is The American Empire on the Brink of Collapse?

“U.S. military expert Chalmers Johnson argues the catastrophe in Iraq and the staggering cost of running a military that stretches across 130 countries on 737 bases may finally cost America its empire.

“I believe that we’re close to a tipping point right now. What happened to the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 could easily be happening to us for essentially the same reasons. Imperial overreach, inability to reform, rigid economic ideology. … The world’s balance of power didn’t change one iota on September 11, 2001. The only way we could lose the power and influence we had at that time was through our own actions, and that’s what we did.”

– Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

“But the broad argument that I’m trying to make in Nemesis is that history tells us there’s no more unstable, critical configuration than the combination of domestic democracy and foreign empire. You can be one or the other. You can be a democratic country, as we have claimed in the past to be, based on our Constitution. Or you can be an empire. But you can’t be both.

TheStateOf . . . America. A lot of smart people I (J) know are getting scared for the future of America. It just feels like something bad (economically) is going to happen. War, tax cuts and a real estate bubble = bad news. All I know is I’ve got water stored.