U.S. Marines depart a checkpoint and patrol back to Forward Operating Base Geronimo, Afghanistan, May 30, 2010. The Marines are assigned to Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mark Fayloga
An America Eternally 'At War' -- Tom Engelhardt, L.A. Times
Military actions have become the tics of an overwrought great power.
A great power without a significant enemy? That's what the U.S. has become.
Osama bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda is reportedly a shadow of its former self. The great regional threats of the moment, North Korea and Iran, are regimes held together by baling wire and the suffering of their populaces. The only incipient great power rival on the planet, China, has just launched its first aircraft carrier, a refurbished Ukrainian throwaway from the 1990s on whose deck the country has no planes capable of landing.
The U.S., by contrast, has 1,000 or more bases around the world. It spends as much on its military as the next 14 powers (mostly allies) combined.
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My Comment: The situation is changing ....the economic might and the preeminence that the U.S. always had is now shifting .... going to other nations who have a different view of the world. The money is also no longer there .... the public and the politicians that they elect want to spend it elsewhere and not on weapon systems .... and they are doing it recklessly producing debts that our children will now be forced to pay in the far future. But more importantly .... the culture is shifting .... America is not in the business of running an empire or building someone's nation up .... a fact that two major wars .... and a number of smaller ones .... have taught us just in the past few years. So .... is America eternally "at war" .... the answer is yes .... but probably in my lifetime this will no longer be the case.
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