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Violence and Militarism...
have always been integral to American culture. Only countries that have bore the brunt of total war forsake policies of violence. We may never see it.
The Bush Administration sees no problem radicalizing DC -- it's what they sought out. They show us our cultural depravity. The US is waning as the unipolar cultural and economic hegemon of the world -- it only took seventeen or eighteen years after the USSR fell.
We are in our "late phase" of dominance, and the world may be better for it.