Our gigantic national debt and the return to popular imperial expansion.

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  Our field is drying up and we need cash. The only way we can remain solvent is to literally steal wealth from other people. I don't think many of you here, including myself, would agree with this "solution".

  However, I think that many Americans, if faced with a standard of living that one sees in, say, Mexico or being able to continue their consumptive ways by supporting dubious military conquests to plunder resources from other countries, would probably go along with it.

  Not that anyone would ever define the proposition out loud, but still...

  I wonder if many of the lawmakers who go along with Bush have thought of this "Project". I suspect they have.

  I think this is what we're doing in Iraq: Pulping it until we can just dramatically throw up our hands and say "Fine! Since you can't rule yourselves we'll reluctantly rule you!" I don't think it'll stop at Iraq and, of course, China and Russia will not be willing to play along.

  But then again, they'll probably be too busy doing the same thing in their own way.

PB