The price of empire

[whosinpower]

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/052804/052804y.php

The Bush administration -- at great expense both monetarily and in terms of American purpose -- is learning what it’s like to be a colonial power. One might have thought that ample literature exists on the pitfalls of such an enterprise, but the administration seems to have ignored what history might have to say.

In fact, it is a conceit of the neoconservative movement that has so thoroughly shaped our foreign policy in the past three years that America is destined to dominate and to be a force for good in the world.

The irony, of course, is that what began on the wings of lofty moral tones is crashing into the mountain of war’s hideous debris, much of it -- from the deaths of yet uncounted civilians and soldiers to the abuse of prisoners -- singularly immoral.



Much more at above address.......fairly strongly worded. I highly recommend the read!