Thursday, December 15, 2011
Monster of Militarism
As suggested in the media recently, turning the US military against the American people may be a sign of social collapse, but the American empire has a long way to go before it even remotely adheres to the international human rights regime. If history is any lesson, then wanton destruction across the globe on behalf of Wall Street is likely to escalate before the American main street can get a grip on the reins of power. Even if that happens, it will still be a monumental task to undo two centuries of militaristic madness and the mindset it has imbued in the American psyche. Some earlier European empires made democratic transitions with the aid of their military leaders, but in the United States, the corrosion of the Pentagon by transnational corporations and Christian fundamentalists makes that scenario unlikely. Realistically, we should expect to see considerable shedding of innocent American blood on the streets of America before the monster of militarism is tamed.
