Reply #73: It is sad really [View All]

[whosinpower]

Not because all empires fail - they do, either from outside pressures or inside corruption - either way - they fail.

But what I find so depressing is that the US was founded on ideals that were supposed to immunize itself from the failures of the past, immunize it from colonialism, imperialistic goals. It was supposed to be the best - and in the end, they followed the historical road that all empires go down - so it does not matter if you are communist, monarchist, or democratic.

George W. Bush has one historic moment - that if he was intelligent and forward thinking enough, could of dramatically altered the way history is written. He had one moment where it did not matter if you were russian, chinese, muslim, arab, christian - he had the power within his grasp right after 911 to do something trully historic - everyone was on the same side, - and he utterly wasted that moment.

And we should all be aware that many democracies have been overthrown by the US itself. So - it would be more appropriate to state that the US was/is exporting its capitalism - not democracy. And that is in peril now given the economic crisis facing the globe.