The United States, which for decades sought to break the power of OPEC, is now preparing to become OPEC, by military means. The threats against Europe and Russia are portents of the world envisioned by Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the piratical band that runs the Bush government. They are about to define what an unchallenged superpower is, and does. International law is no longer a consideration.
The sovereignty of every nation on the globe is in jeopardy. So are the lives of every person in the United States, as our society risks being transformed into the repository of all the world's resentments - many of which will be absolutely justified. How many terrorists can be distilled from six billion angry human beings? The "American Century" is a prescription for insecurity without end, war eternal.
A twilight struggle
In the new, bombed and besieged America - and that is what is on the horizon - civil liberties could shrink to the bare levels necessary for the free flow of goods and services; no one knows what freedoms are required to maintain a complicated market society such as ours, but we may be forced to find out.
The sovereignty of every nation on the globe is in jeopardy. So are the lives of every person in the United States, as our society risks being transformed into the repository of all the world's resentments - many of which will be absolutely justified. How many terrorists can be distilled from six billion angry human beings? The "American Century" is a prescription for insecurity without end, war eternal.
A twilight struggle
In the new, bombed and besieged America - and that is what is on the horizon - civil liberties could shrink to the bare levels necessary for the free flow of goods and services; no one knows what freedoms are required to maintain a complicated market society such as ours, but we may be forced to find out.