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Thats one of the things wrong with the American political system right now. Talk radio and the internet has so many focused in on the munutia that they fail to see the big picture and the problems overall that have nothing to do with party politics and everything to do with the future of this country.
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It's a great day to be a Spartan! How's that for realism!?
Sorrows of Empire is pretty good. Talks a lot about how we have these pointless outposts around the globe that serve no strategic interests and are just playgrounds. I think he believes we'll fade like the British Empire.
I think he believes worse than that. With the trade deficit what it is and with virtually no accountability in the federal govt economically, he thinks were on a possibly irreversible path of economic collapse.
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It's a great day to be a Spartan! How's that for realism!?
I think he believes worse than that. With the trade deficit what it is and with virtually no accountability in the federal govt economically, he thinks were on a possibly irreversible path of economic collapse.
Economic collapse? Where have I heard that before?
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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
I've read his book "Blowback" (I believe that's the name) and have read parts of Sorrows of Empire. A guy with a background in Asian geo-politics and he knows of which he speaks.
Not a lot of hype in his writings, just cold hard observations about what he has seen and where he thinks things are heading for the United States.
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"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are." - H.L. Mencken, 1949.
I've read Blowback and Sorrows of Empire. Both are very well researched. I will probably read Nemesis later this summer. His analysis of our imperial folly is spot on.
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