There is one experiment that history has run multiple times over the past centuries, always with the same result. That experiment is the test of whether a nation can remain tolerant, solvent, prosperous, free, etc., while trying to run the world.
The answer is always no. The imperial experiment always fails. Unfortunately, many elites within the would-be empire benefit over the short term from the attempt to rule, preventing the rest of the country from minding its own business, which both they and the rest of the world would prefer.
The U.S. is that latest in a long line to try this experiment, and the vast array of deep-seated problems inherited by President Obama from his inept and bellicose predecessor is evidence that we are likely to soon suffer the same fate as those rulers before us.
Chris Hedges takes a no-holds-barred look at our "permanent war" society in this piece:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090518_the_disease_of_permanent_war/
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