"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." ~ Guy de Maupassant
Old Threat Rings True Today
Submitted by Derek Henson on Tue, 2010-01-12 04:00
“Bin Laden proclaimed his grand strategy in the 1990s. He would oust the modern ‘crusaders’ by luring the U.S. and its allies into a series of small, debilitating, hugely expensive wars to bleed and slowly bankrupt the U.S. economy, which he called America's Achilles' heel.”
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Yep. In terms of financial damage to the empire it's a hugely successful strategy.
Eric Margolis is one of my favorite commentators on foreign policy. I've listened to several of his interviews with Scott Horton at antiwar.com.