Re: NYTimes.com Article: All Roads Lead to D.C.

Two questions:

1. Who are singing praise to the "American Empire"?
2. Where is the evidence of American decline (or American is declining in
what way relative to what)?

Regards

Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Stremlin" <bstremli@binghamton.edu>
To: "Albert Bergesen" <albert@email.arizona.edu>
Cc: "WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK" <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 7:13 AM
Subject: Re: NYTimes.com Article: All Roads Lead to D.C.


> On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Albert Bergesen wrote:
>
> > Empire is a manifestation of decline.  It isn't a stragegy of ascent or
> > mature hegemonic dominance. Those who sing the praise of American Empire
> > are whistling in the dark, except they don't know that the lights are
going
> > out.
>
> This may be true, but the question is how many other lights they'll knock
> out before they go sailing quietly into the night.
>
> --
> Boris Stremlin
> bstremli@binghamton.edu
>