"The Decade of the Stunned Superpower" -- Tom Englehardt (Long/Fascinating Read)

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1. The conclusion put it very well:

What, after all, are we to make of a planet with a single superpower that lacks genuine enemies of any significance and that, to all appearances, has nonetheless been fighting a permanent global war with… well, itself — and appears to be losing?


Accepting that we are "losing"--that everything we do is ineffective or counter-productive or both--is probably beyond the capacity of the vast majority of Americans, but particularly our ruling classes in politics and the MIC.

More's the pity.