Het failliete Amerika 3

'The Empire Has No Clothes,' is de titel van het laatst verschenen boek van de Amerikaanse geleerde Ivan Eland, waarin deze vooraanstaande expert op het gebied van economie en de nationale veiligheid de toestand van het Amerikaanse rijk scherp analyseert. Hij concludeert dat de Verenigde Staten niet langer meer de economische macht bezit om het militair expansionisme te financieren. 'The United States maintains more than 700 military bases worldwide, spanning an area that dwarfs the great empires of world history. Although many conservative and liberal leaders today support a policy of foreign interventionism, extensive military engagement around the world is a policy deeply at odds with principles of the republic’s founders—and deeply at odds with the economic, political, and security interests of the American people.The United States has military dominance but no longer has the economic dominance to match; it accounts for nearly 40 percent of the world’s military spending but only about 30 percent of global GDP. The United States is so dominant today only because other empires declined as a result of losing wars (Germany and Japan) or becoming overextended overseas relative to their frail economies (Britain, France, and the Soviet Union). If the U.S. empire stays the course, America’s economic dominance and political influence will likely decline.' Meer hierover:
http://www.independent.org/publications/books/book_summary.asp?bookID=54&s=ha Eland's boek toont aan dat Europa een eigen koers moet gaan varen op zowel economisch, politiek als militair niveau.