I ask this in good faith, as I do not know the answer:  Is there one epoch in history in which the declining imperialist power was NOT replaced by another imperialist power?  Granted the forms of imperialism may be different and one may be "worse" than the other, but doesn't your point presume that we would be better off? I am not saying that things would be worse without the U.S., but what justifies your belief that it would be obviously better?   Chuck Munson <chuck@tao.ca> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Chuck Grimes wrote: > > ``...Chomsky referred to the opening quote after Bennett suggested he > did say in the book that the US deserved it....'' Peter > > ------------- > > And that would be wrong because....? > > See I don't get it. What's wrong with suggesting that the US not only > deserved it, but has been begging for it for decades. > > Why is it so essential to do this little genuflection? This little > mantra on how we are all stocked and appalled, and how any form of > criticism of US is a poisonous slander tantamount to condoning > terrorism. > > I mean that sort of phony bullshit begs to be pissed on. > > Ah, here we go, just read Kelley channelling her mother-in-law. So > sure, let's get it out. Fuck the US. We are an asshole people, > stingy, me! an! , stupid, and brutal. I have no idea why people come > here. Explain it to me again. I don't get it. > > And yes, I am completely incapable of saying one decent word about > this jerk-off country---except I like Berkeley. What are you going to > do about? Amen, the other Chuck! I was telling friends shortly after 9-11 that it was high time that we got rid of the U.S., because none of the world's problems willbe solved until we eliminate this disgusting country from the face of the planet. << Chuck0 >> Personal homepage -> http://flag.blackened.net/chuck0/home/index.html Infoshop.org -> http://www.infoshop.org/ Alternative Press Review -> http://www.altpr.org/ Practical Anarchy Online -> http://www.practicalanarchy.org/ Anarchy: AJODA -> http://www.anarchymag.org/ MutualAid.org -> http://www.mutualaid.org/ Factsheet 5 -> http://www.factsheet5.org/ AIM: Age! nt! HelloKitty Web publishing and services for your nonprofit: Bread and Roses Web Publishing http://www.breadandrosesweb.org/ "...ironically, perhaps, the best organised dissenters in the world today are anarchists, who are busily undermining capitalism while the rest of the left is still trying to form committees." -- Jeremy Hardy, The Guardian (UK)</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do You Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/welcome/*http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com">Yahoo!</a> - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup