September 15, 2007 at 09:01:14

The Cracks in the Fa�ade are Widening

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Where does the United States stand today, with all its enormously wealthy corporations? It is on the brink of an economic collapse. The working people have no more buying power and the values of their homes are collapsing, while the one tenth of one percent of Americans are wallowing in obscene wealth. The land that used to pride itself on the possibility of going from rags to riches, is now a debt-ridden nation with no internal strength left, all set to crumble at the next serious economic or military downturn.

And in addition to the developing economic collapse at home, there is the atrocity and the bungling of the Iraqi occupation, which clearly should never have taken place. And so as to add even more to the disaster of today's U.S. political situation, the deaf and blind leaders are posed to attack yet another country with insane bombing raids. The pretext in the case of Iran is just as flimsy as it once was for the invasion of Iraq.

A ship in storm

The cracks in the U.S. leadership are widening. Important members of the military and of the civilian establishment are abandoning ship, popular disillusion with the current government is increasing daily and a growing number of Republicans are either scandal-ridden or giving up on the blind skipper and leaving the sinking ship.

It's obvious that such misrule cannot go on forever. The voice of reason must ultimately make itself heard, but the timid voices of the "opposition" Democrats can do very little to stabilize the situation or save what can be saved of the nation's standing in the world. It's pretty clear that the U.S. is doomed but there are a number of questions – When will the truth dawn on the clueless leaders? Who will suffer the brunt of the shipwreck? Only the poor and the middle class? Will the capitalists always find a way to save their ill-gotten wealth? The future will tell. However, it's becoming increasingly clear that the days of the U.S. as a superpower are over.

Crossposted from Axis of Logic

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Siv O'Neall was born and raised in Sweden where she graduated from Lund University. She has lived in Paris, France and New Rochelle, N.Y. and traveled extensively throughout Europe, the U.S. and other continents, mainly several trips to India. Siv (more...)

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