trivas7
21st December 2008, 18:56
The US has over 761 overseas military sites not counting Iraq and Afghanistan. As of Dec. 2007 over half a million service personnel have been deployed in 151 foreign countries.
The cause of the two major collapses of Western imperialism in history -- after WWI, the Hapsburgs, the Ottomans and Romanoffs and after WWII, the British and French -- was financial exhaustion. In this way Al-Quida's goals are being fully achieved. Their goal was to trigger the collapse of the American empire through undermining its financial base through a war of economic attrition. The current economic collapse is the price we pay to conduct a stealth war where no taxes have gone up yet the government has spent trillions of dollars responding to 9/11.
The cause of the two major collapses of Western imperialism in history -- after WWI, the Hapsburgs, the Ottomans and Romanoffs and after WWII, the British and French -- was financial exhaustion. In this way Al-Quida's goals are being fully achieved. Their goal was to trigger the collapse of the American empire through undermining its financial base through a war of economic attrition. The current economic collapse is the price we pay to conduct a stealth war where no taxes have gone up yet the government has spent trillions of dollars responding to 9/11.