Chalmers Johnson: Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire
by Chalmers Johnson
However zealous President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might gig. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with other countries and the elephantine, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military formation and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trine of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Confederacy.
According to the 2008 official Pentagon inventory of our military bases around the world, our empire consists of 865 facilities in more than 40 countries and abroad U.S. territories. We deploy over 190,000 troops in 46 countries and territories.
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