He is endorsing a world view that has shown its profound contempt for the workings of democracy, respecting only power and only when it belongs to a very particular privileged cohort.
What he seems to have either missed or dismissed is that the US' credibility has gone down the toilet with the rest of the world. This damage will not be undone soon. Perhaps an empire can dismiss as penis envy the critiques of the non-empire, but I cannot recommend it as a civilized alternative to our republic's experiment in government by the consent of the governed.
Technocratic differences with Rumsfeld over how best to implement empire are meaningless when compared to principled differences over our identity as empire at all. Mr. Marshall's writing will succeed only to the extent that we abandon our critical faculties or else to the extent that his views can be forcibly imposed upon us.
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