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In 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet’s “sole superpower” would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence.

In his new book The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security—and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff.

This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country—gripped by terror fantasies—was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.

Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist “sole superpower” of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.

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Tom Engelhardt created and runs Tomdispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Englehardt is also co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan Books' The American Empire Project.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1608461548
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haymarket Books (December 13, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781608461547
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1608461547
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches

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Herman Padilla

The Clown car drives over the Cliff

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The American way of war viewed as an addiction to spending, to a self-intoxication of believing one own fantasies, of viewing the world through imperial war supremist ambitions. Tom Engelhardt who’s TomDispatch.com was the vehicle for the many essays that formed the core arguments of this book, gives a very clear and compelling analysis for why and how the present decline of The American Empire has evolved and the tragedy it presents to our Planet as well as our failing democracy. While this book printed in 2011 is out of date in the current context of our Trump nose dive to the bottom Presidency, it’s analysis is still spot on and nothing that is happening currently changes the basis of the core problems and political impairments while a updated version of this thesis would be appreciated and valuable it wouldn’t change the diagnosis at the time this book was published The patient was in great need of intervention of being committed to a treatment program and many years of intensive counseling and forced sobriety nothing of the sort happened instead the Patient (meaning us) has gone off the deep end, and currently is in the middle of a deep dark bender that is not going to end well this is exactly what the author predicted back in 2011 the great imperial power on a downhill slide and now to view it from the backseat of the car as it fly's down a steep hill watching as our country drive itself over a cliff.

Author Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security—and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff.

Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist “sole superpower” of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.

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Excellent book on idiocy of US leaders and officials including the Pentagon in repeating mistakes of past regimes

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Good insights into how the US government led by the neocons under Reagan, Clinton, and both Bushes and Obama have been turning the country into something that closely resembles the Soviet Union in the 1980’s with spending on the military industrial complex instead of the country’s infrastructure and people.

Tom Englehardt does a good job of illustrating the parallels between the men running the Soviet Union who continued to mistake military power for real power in the world. The power was sufficient to control their own people with its police state although it was not as technically sophisticated as the creation of the US police state begun after September 11. The US has seen its real power, militarily and economically eroded over the past 30 years when measured in terms other than the ability to turn countries back to the stone age with our weapons of mass destruction.

There is an aspect of the Peter principle at play as well where the same men and women in government and the military whose judgment has lead to gross failures continue to be in power and continue to be rewarded despite their obvious failures. The same economic and policy advisors go from one administration to the next so it no longer matters which political party is in control of Congress or the White House.

The price for their failures is paid by soldiers with their lives and the citizens and taxpayers whose quality of life declines year by year. In any listing of industrialized countries in the world the USA consistently ranks 27th or worse in all but the ability to inflict massive damage.

What is missing from Mr. Englehardt’s book though is a broader sense of how we came to be ruled by the neocons and how they are driven not out of a need for military power but for wealth. With all of America’s wars businessmen have profited enormously and large personal fortunes have been created at the expense of the people of this country and those we invaded.

Our unilateralism can be traced back at least to the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 when the president stated that the America’s were ours to control. This was extended by Teddy Roosevelt to Asia and led to the US occupation of the Philippines for nearly a century.

These military actions outside the USA were always to support the private interests of US businessmen and nearly always was in opposition to the interests of the native peoples and in opposition to democratically elected governments. It was business interests that led to the invasions of Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Iraq, and Afghanistan to name but a few.

It was Germany’s top 25 industrialists that put Hitler in power in return for his outlawing worker unions as with the men backing so many governors in the US with the same kinds of backroom deal. It was the industrialists that wanted the US out of the Philippines that we were occupying that resulted in the attack on the ships at Pearl Harbor. It was the men at British Petroleum that urged Churchill to request the assistance of Eisenhower in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iraq and led to the installation of an army officer, one Saddam Hussein. It was the belief in oil in Vietnam as with Indonesia (where we gave the government the go ahead and the weapons to massacre the people of East Timor), that directed the actions of our State Department and military with the support of dictators throughout the region. It was the interests of energy companies that have directed US military actions and the sales of weapons in the Middle East and Africa.

It is a process of industrial colonization that requires the use of force and so our soldiers are sent off to fight for the industrialists of our country. The first “world war” was initiated for control over the Middle East and Africa by the European colonizing governments of France, Germany, Belgian, and the Dutch. The map dividing up the spoils of war, the continent of Africa to the victors was drawn up two years before the end of World War II, just as it was after World War II when Vietnam was given to the French by the United States under Truman.

What is pathetic and tragic is how many deluded soldiers go off to kill and be killed with the mistaken notion that they are fighting for their country when nothing could be further from the truth. The fight in support of the profits for industrialists and bankers and the manufacturers of the machines of war.

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