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Do you think the actions of bush and the neocons these past years are costing America her place in this world?
Will bush and his neocon administration go down in history as "the gravediggers of the American empire"?
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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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.
No. I do think one of the reasons America has prospered is that America has not pandered to world opinion. I don't think this should change, since there isn't another model that would work for our huge, diverse population without producing more problems than it solved.
