It’s the beginning of the end for the American empire
AlterNet
by Chalmers Johnson
08/18/10
Let me begin by asking: What harm would befall the United States if we actually decided, against all odds, to close those hundreds and hundreds of bases, large and small, that we garrison around the world? What if we actually dismantled our empire, and came home? Would Genghis Khan-like hordes descend on us? Not likely. Neither a land nor a sea invasion of the U.S. is even conceivable. Would 9/11-type attacks accelerate? It seems far likelier to me that, as our overseas profile shrank, the possibility of such attacks would shrink with it...
http://tinyurl.com/2c4altc
The Obamacare disaster
The American Spectator
by Peter Ferrara
08/18/10
The bottom line is that you will lose your health care under this legislation, if not your job, your country as they bankrupt America, and maybe ultimately your life or the life of a loved one. All that to make dreamy, emotionalized, liberals happy, even though many of them are not happy because the socialism in the bill is not overt enough. Moreover, the promises made to the American people to pass the bill are shown in the study to be thoroughly false...
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/18/the-obamacare-disaster
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Putting Obama in Charge of Life and Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell16.1.html
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obamacare
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=bankrupt+America
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=health+care
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Ferrara
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=/sowell
by Chalmers Johnson
08/18/10
Let me begin by asking: What harm would befall the United States if we actually decided, against all odds, to close those hundreds and hundreds of bases, large and small, that we garrison around the world? What if we actually dismantled our empire, and came home? Would Genghis Khan-like hordes descend on us? Not likely. Neither a land nor a sea invasion of the U.S. is even conceivable. Would 9/11-type attacks accelerate? It seems far likelier to me that, as our overseas profile shrank, the possibility of such attacks would shrink with it...
http://tinyurl.com/2c4altc
The Obamacare disaster
The American Spectator
by Peter Ferrara
08/18/10
The bottom line is that you will lose your health care under this legislation, if not your job, your country as they bankrupt America, and maybe ultimately your life or the life of a loved one. All that to make dreamy, emotionalized, liberals happy, even though many of them are not happy because the socialism in the bill is not overt enough. Moreover, the promises made to the American people to pass the bill are shown in the study to be thoroughly false...
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/08/18/the-obamacare-disaster
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Putting Obama in Charge of Life and Death
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell16.1.html
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=empire
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obamacare
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=bankrupt+America
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=health+care
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Peter+Ferrara
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=/sowell
rudkla - 19. Aug, 08:56