Con ocasión del que hubiera sido el cumpleaños número 80 del fallecido Chalmers Johnson (autor de la imprescindible trilogía Blowback sobre la naturaleza del imperio militar global estadounidense), TomDispatch publica uno de sus ensayos, publicado a finales de 2009. Tom Engelhardt considera que después de varias semanas llenas de complicaciones para la economía estadounidense, el pensamiento de Johnson sobre los costos y consecuencias del Imperio Americano, es más relevante y urgente que nunca [N. del Ed.].
However ambitious President Barack Obama's domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. 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 vast, potentially ruinous global empire of bases that goes with it. The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment 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 trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union.
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