Empire, and resistance to it, is the central issue of our time (Ind / UK)

[struggle4progress]

From Iraq and Lebanon to Afghanistan, the Anglo-American attempt to remake the world by force is failing

Andrew Murray
Saturday August 26, 2006
The Guardian

'How goes the empire?" ...

The answer is that it goes pretty badly. The new imperialism which will for ever be linked to the names Bush and Blair has taken just five years to hit the buffers of popular opposition and moral ignominy ...

... Nearly two-thirds of the public believe British foreign policy is too subservient to the US and that the foreign occupations are a failure. The strength of the anti-war movement over the past five years, drawing fresh support during the Lebanon war, testifies that this sentiment goes much further than opinion polls.

Against this renewed left, there has coagulated a coalition of the brazen conservatives in Washington and their transatlantic admirers, including the two parliamentary frontbenches and a pseudo-social-democratic "new right" addicted to the spread of its values at the point of the imperial bayonet. They have set aside the left's traditional support for international law and the UN in favour of backing Bush's endless war ...

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1858804,00.html

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Wow, tell it like it is! n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. The Romans brought freedom and democracy to the world...

and we all know how that ended.

[Demeter]

3. The Time of Empire Is Past

and sooner or later, those multinational corporations are going to realize it.