America - A Bankrupt Empire

I think Justin's got the right read on this one:

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12259

"What is likely to stop the rise of the American empire dead in its tracks
isn't a sudden upsurge in the antiwar movement, the election of a rational
President, and/or a sudden radical reversal by the policymaking elite after
more than half a century of folly - it's bankruptcy that will do it, long
before any of these possibilities have a chance to take shape.

Not that this is anything to anticipate with glee: it means social and
political disruption on a scale we have scarcely experienced before in this
country, perhaps even a revolution."