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End of U.S. Imperium—Finally!? Obama About to Suffer Glorious Defeat in Congress? Posted: 07 Sep 2013 01:12 PM PDT The coalition of the willing is now down to the US alone as France now wants to wait for more data on alleged gas usage. Yet, President Obama rejects G20 pressure to abandon Syria air strike plan. Obama Plans Full Court Press Inquiring minds note that Obama plans a 'full-court press' to sway Congress and a speech to US citizens on September 10. Obama's address to the nation from the White House on Tuesday will be part of a rejuvenated lobbying effort on Syria as Congress returns to Washington next week. A Democratic congressional aide said the administration is planning "a full-court press" aimed at undecided lawmakers.Polls Show Citizens Solidly Against War John Nichols writing for The Nation accurately sums up the situation in 'Nobody Wants This Except the Military-Industrial Complex' House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, backs President Obama's request for authorization to intervene militarily in Syria, as does House Democratic Minority Nancy Pelosi, D-California. 'Nobody Wants This Except the Military-Industrial Complex' Nichols referred to a Huffington Post article quoting Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Florida, "nobody wants this except the military-industrial complex". "One thing that is perfectly clear to me in my district, and I think is true in many other districts from speaking to other members, is that there is no desire, no desire on the part of people to be the world's policeman," Grayson said on SiriusXM's "The Agenda with Ari Rabin-Havt," which aired Thursday morning. "For us to pick up this gauntlet even on the basis of unequivocal evidence of chemical warfare by the Syrian army, deliberately against its own people -- even if there were unequivocal evidence of that -- that's just not what people in my district want."Expected Votes on Authorizing Military Strike The End of U.S. Imperium—Finally! An article on The Daily Beast by David Stockman contains so much uncommon sense that it makes me want to stand up and salute! Please consider The End of U.S. Imperium—Finally! by David Stockman. Next week Congress can do far more than stop a feckless Tomahawk barrage on a small country that is already a graveyard of civil war and sectarian slaughter. By voting "no," it can trigger the end of the American Imperium—five decades of incessant meddling, bullying, and subversion around the globe that has added precious little to national security but left America fiscally exhausted and morally diminished.Heart of the Hypocrisy In case you missed it, Stockman nails the heart of US war-mongering hypocrisy with this question: "After having rained napalm, white phosphorous, bunker busters, drone missiles, and the most violent machinery of conventional warfare ever assembled upon millions of innocent Vietnamese, Cambodians, Serbs, Somalis, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Yemeni, Libyans, and countless more, Washington now presupposes to be in the moral-sanctions business?" There is much more in the article. Please take a look. David Stockman is also the author of The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America and the #1 New York Times bestseller The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed. Is this the "End of U.S. Imperium"? Finally? We should all hope so. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com |
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