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2001/9/16 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:22482 Activity:insanely high
9/15    The state of america today
        "There are two nations and cultures now
        living under the star-spangled banner."
        http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3ba4761c269f.htm
        \_ "ramble"
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Scotland on Sunday ^ | 16/09/01 | Gerald Warner Posted on 09/16/2001 2:51:24 AM PDT by 8 Jakarta ex-pat AND then there was none. Last Tuesday, the only superpower remaining from the old world order of the 20th century collapsed into the debris of Manhattan and the Pentagon. For once, the instinct of American commentators to embrace the most apocalyptic interpretation of events was right: nothing will ever be the same again. Of course, the US will remain, for the foreseeable future, the richest and most technologically advanced nation on earth, with a corresponding political and military capability. That, however, is not the same as being the world's only superpower. The concept of empire depends more upon psychological than military dominance. The US was a belligerent in two world wars, suffering heavy casualties, without one bomb or shell landing on its own soil. Domestic security is almost the definition of empire: the luxury of waging war at long range, exclusively on other people's territory. When the tide of war finally swept back upon the city itself, it was an augury of defeat. The myth of invulnerability - the indispensable attribute of a superpower - has been demolished. The present crisis is the product of very disparate histories and the cultures they have created coming into collision. The US, with its short history, has become embroiled in a vendetta that was already ancient, centuries before America was discovered. The Crusades, now decried in politically correct Western schools, were the first confrontation between Islam and the West. The anguished cries for intervention presently resounding throughout the western world are almost identical to the clamour which induced Pope Urban II to preach the First Crusade in 1095. 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