VHeadline guest commentarist Mateo Owen writes: One of the great survival secrets of long-lived empires was that they didn't overstretch: witness the Roman Empire, which, after the defeat in the Teutoburg Forest, stuck to defensable borders for centuries: it was internal contradictions, as with many before it and since, that weakened it before the inevitable enemies it generated.
Well, the American Empire seems hell-bent on going for the big one, World Conquest: no empire before it has achieved it...and every empire that tried sowed the seeds of its own downfall.
Never mind that the American Empire has ready-made Israeli and Colombian "allies:" they were set up precisely to take the heat in the areas of the world the US seeks to conquer...and they will, massively.
World conquest is impossible, and attempting it will only make the situation in the US far worse: in "An Economy Built On Lies" by Gary North the situation in the USA is likened to that in the USSR just before it collapsed. Note that the Soviet Union, too, was a nuclear superpower, but that didn't save it: nuclear supremacy won't save the USA either.
- Notice, too, that Alexander's empire was built on, among other things, the ashes of Athenan "democracy:" why should its slaves rise up to defend their masters?
The Roman Empire was build on the ashes of the Roman Republic: its slaves did rise up, and almost conquered it (Imagine if Sparticus, rather than Lenin, had headed the first socialist state).
In between lay Alexander's empire: had he the time to take the advice that Aristotle gave in "the Politics," rather than indulging in imperial overstretch, Alexander's empire would have given birth to a system of checks and balances very familiar to USAmericans (although, lamentably, less so these days).
Yet even when such a system was instituted in the USA milennia later, it didn't confront the evil of slavery for almost a century: the war that resulted also markedly weakened the system of checks and balances.
The system of genocide that gave rise to the USA has never been confronted in such depth: to do so would throw the whole "American Dream" into question.
Instead, the USA, blind to history, races headlong toward destruction: one made, not by its external enemies, but by itself.
As North correctly noted: a society build on lies cannot long stand.
The USA cannot destroy the truth: instead the truth will destroy it.
Whether the triumph of truth will spare any of us here in the USA remains to be seen: the German, Japanese, and Russian and other Soviet peoples survived the triumph of the truth, but were, and are, forever changed.
Whether we USAmericans are changed for the better, as were the German and Japanese people, or for the worse, as were the German people after the defeat in WWI, remains to be seen.
See you on the other side!
Hasta pronto, y a la victoria, siempre,
Mateo Owen
rararoadrunner@yahoo.com
This is quasi-hip foolishness. Someone who knows jack **** about the US is trying to make a name for himself among people who know even less of the truth than he does. I am a USA American, whose forbears who came to this land 400 years ago. That doesn't mean much in Europe, but it should be a heads-up to Latin American upstarts who have oil and not much else, who refuse to accept a leg up out of gross ignorance, shallow history and foolish, false pride.
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