Re: the attack

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:14 PM 09/13/2001 +0300, you wrote:
> It seems that we have some way to go before the recognition of imperial
> decline sinks in. Until then we're going to be subject to ever-more
> frenetic efforts to impose the US power elite's sovereign will upon all
> and sundry.

I am not convinced that "imperial decline" is real. That kind of process is
reversible. Also, what specifically do you mean? The US industrial economy
may be in decline, but its military and financial might are undimmed. The
US/NATO as a whole is still pretty strong. The transnationals are running
the world economy. Etc.

Also, the little fragment of radio news I've heard suggests that US/NATO is
going to go to war against Afghanistan, with Russia's support. That would
be an easy victory -- but then the US/NATO would be trying to run one of
the poorest and most disaster-struck countries around, while fighting a
guerrilla army, involving a lot of experienced fighters from the armies
that beat the USSR.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine