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The Fall of the American Empire?
by Victor Gerhard
4 December 2003
It sure seems like the world situation can't get any crazier. As someone
recently wrote, the U.S. is prepared to give military assistance to almost
every country in the world but Iran and North Korea. Our country now has
troops in well over 100 foreign countries -- over 150 by one count. Some of
these are small training groups, but hey, 150 countries.
Just as no social program ever seems to disappear once it gets going, the U.S.
can't seem to pull troops out of countries once it puts them in. We have
troops in Germany and Japan left over from WWII. Heck, we've had troops in the
Philippines, with a short break in the 90's, since 1899.
It is of course in Afghanistan and Iraq that the US troops are busiest. By
many accounts, the pacification of Afghanistan has completely failed. Instead
of the stable, albeit anti-Western, government that existed before the
invasion, Afghanistan has reverted to it's thousand-year tradition of warlords
and bandits, plus it has become again one of the world's top producers of
opium. Reportedly, the US wants to pass the losing effort in Afghanistan on to
NATO. That will be a hard sell; it seems logical that at some point the US has
to withdraw whether the Taliban come back or not. And in fact the Taliban has
been regrouping in that country and attacking US and Afghanistan government
troops. The Russian army, with far more men and equipment, and with far more
brutality, could not pacify Afghanistan in ten years of vicious fighting, and
at that time Afghanistan was on their southern border. It is not a question of
if the Western nations are pushed out of Afghanistan, but when.
Then there is the center ring, Iraq. The past November was the costliest as
far as casualties the US has experienced so far in the entire Iraqi War. There
were MORE casualties than in the first month of the invasion. Reportedly, the
US and coalition forces experience about 140 contacts with enemy forces in Iraq
per day. That includes all random gunfire, mines, booby-traps - every
instrument of guerilla war.
I can't help comparing this with the historical example of the fall of the
Roman Empire. Rome had expanded over the known world by about 100 A.D., with
troops busy enforcing Roman rule in every part. No one imagined it could ever
end. Yet internally the rot had already begun, with incompetent Emperors,
Imperial overreach, and bad social programs. When various barbarian tribes
were pressuring the borders of the Empire several hundred years later, Rome
lacked the will and the legions to fully resist. So it attempted to turn the
barbarians into Romans. At first it worked, and the tribes were used to fight
yet other barbarians attacking Roman territory. But relatively quickly the
barbarians began getting out of control; eventually they sacked Rome and ended
the Empire.
The former Republic of America has disappeared, replaced by a New World Order
oligarchy. America appears to have over-reached militarily in the Middle
East. At the same time, the Empire is being invaded from the south by millions
barbarians that can not be assimilated, that in fact will refuse to assimilate
and desire to take over territory.
Will the American Empire fall anytime soon? As one historian has noted, one of
the key elements of Western Civilization is confidence; confidence that your
family is safe, confidence that work you do today will last, confidence the
government is acting in the interests of the people.
During the 1960s, despite the incredible turmoil, the US survived easily
because of the millions of Americans who remained confident in the government.
Now, possibly, that confidence is waning. The economic situation of many
Americans is worse these days than the 1960s; Whites are as a group against
continued immigration; Whites may be tiring of being subject of every
punishment that the Zionists can throw at them.
We should not delight in the deaths of White Americans in the Middle East.
Quite the opposite, we should let the country see that these deaths are the
fault of Zionists and Imperialists. As the body bags come home, we have to
give Americans who have lost confidence in their government a new belief, a new
vision, that of an all-White nation.
Victor Gerhard
Vice-Chairman, White Revolution
http://www.whiterevolution.com
VICTOR GERHARD
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