A couple of years ago, in Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson reported that the United States had well over 700 military bases abroad. According to a 2007 Department of Defense report, we now have 823 bases overseas. And a good thing too. Apparently the Russians are breathing down our neck with 16 bases around the world, while the Chinese have, no doubt, some diabolical plan since we can't seem to find any of their bases abroad.
With all the strategic stability and global Good Will we've generated by adding another 100 bases over the past few years I say "Let's add a few more ..." And, for good measure, we should flush our Constitution down the toilet and allow the president's Signing Statements to become law, while granting the president free reign when it comes to FISA statute(s).
Militarism and domestic tyranny ... I feel safer just thinking about it, don't you?
- Mark
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