> But there's something about the extremity of the way CC
> put it that makes it sound like the U.S. is the driving force behind
> everything bad in the world.
I think the cultural and political provincialism of the US Empire tends to generate a strange kind of solipsism, which either condemns America as the sum of all fears, or celebrates it as the acme of all hopes. But the Enemy is not a country or an imperial elite, but a mode of production.
Europe is too rich, East Asia is too industrialized, and the developmental states are too well organized to ever let the US play top dog ever again. As a practical matter, the neolib restoration needs to borrow at least $3 trillion from foreign creditors to restore solvency to the US economy.
The Ring has melted, and $auron is no more. Now comes the uprising against the Sarumans of the neoliberal era...
-- DRR