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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> You may have heard of Chalmers Johnson, but I'd missed his recent
> trilogy of books about the end of the US empire. The trilogy comprises
> Blowback, The End of Empire, and now Nemesis.
>
> Amy Goodman interviewed him last week about Nemesis:
>
> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/27/1454229

I haven't read Chalmers Johnson, but the material you presented is  
compelling. The reviews of his books tell the story. I have watched  
the American military-industrial machine growing for many decades. I  
have watched our national standing diminish in the world. I have  
concluded that we are all guilty of making it all happen. We are  
simply not good Americans. We take far too lightly our citizenship  
responsibilities. Unless and until we take them very seriously, the  
same game will continue to be played, wherein the DC Whorehouse and  
greedy industrialists and others filch tax dollars for their own  
greedy purposes. Knowing what they know, there is paranoia among  
these people. Much of it is deserved and has been earned.

The only viable future is one without war and without weapons that  
can obliterate civilizations. I am pessimistic that such wisdom will  
ever be activated.

"Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and  
dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or  
shall mankind renounce war?"
Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, The Russell-Einstein Manifesto  
Issued in London, 9 July 1955