The U.S. Empire - what future, what end?
Features collected by TFF • November 1, 2004"A country's violence, Hannah Arendt said, can destroy its power. The United States is moving quickly down this path. Do American leaders imagine that the people of the world, having overthrown the territorial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, are ready to bend the knee to an American overlord in the twenty-frist? Do they imagine that allies are willing to become subordinates? Have they forgotten that people hate to be dominated by force? History of packed with surprises. The leaders of the totalitarian Soviet empire miraculously had the good sense to yield up their power without unleashing the tremendous violence that was at their fingertips. Could it be the destiny of the American republic, unable to resist the allure of an imperial delusion, to flare out in a blaze of pointless mass destruction?"
- Jonathan Schell, The Unconquerable World, p. 346-347
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