[A-List] What does the end of empire look like?

[Leighm]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Well, Todd, then the irony will be that George Bush accomplished what 
> no radical was able to do: set up a series of dynamics that ended up 
> breaking the American Empire. Should a statue of him be erected 
> alongside that of Marx and Lenin for revolutionary effectiveness?
>     Michael
>
>

GW was a Deconstructionary, or a Destructionary if you prefer.

He even did it to the English language:

"Should the Iranian regime-do they have the sovereign right to have 
civilian nuclear power? So, like, if I were you, that's what I'd ask me. 
And the answer is, yes, they do." --George W. Bush, talking to reporters 
in Washington, D.C., July 2, 2008


Among others:

"Amigo! Amigo!" --George W. Bush, calling out to Italian Prime Minister 
Silvio Berlusconi in Spanish at the G-8 Summit, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 
2008

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm


> On 1/18/09 11:06 PM, "Todd Boyle" <tboyle at rosehill.net> wrote:
>
>     As a result of Gaza-- coming so soon after Lebanon 2006, is that
>     the people are going to overthrow their dictatorial fascist
>     western-collaborator governments just as latin america overthrew
>     theirs.   I think the populations of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
>     Libya, Morocco, Chad, etc. Saudi Arabia, the Emirates.. are going
>     to be overthrown in coming years.
>
>     That's what it means when people say the American empire is
>     collapsing.  Can there be any doubt by now, that the American
>     empire is OVER OVER OVER?   Americans are so damned stupid, of
>     course, they don't want to face the truth. They want to continue
>     to imagine American empire, since America has the most nukes, or
>     whatever.
>
>     The end of empire means that the puppet regimes -the collaborator
>     regimes --collapse.    *It doesn't mean, those governments get up
>     some morning and stop buying or selling with America, and start
>     trading with China or whatever.*    It means regime change.  If
>     they had an elected government, then, the American collaborators
>     are dumped.   If they have a dictatorship, the American
>     collaborators are overthrown.  That's what it looks like.
>
>     TOdd
>
>