And sans spreadsheets, those confabulations which attempt to bless the Voodoo with math.
Mr. Monbiot cuts to the chase: even our arsenal of nukes + 120 million maxed-out credit cards + paper-printing presses - would all go for naught, were Someone Else to take over the Concession - lock, 'stock' and debentures.
And it is THIS scale of Reaction to our Stimulus, which I believed would likely follow inexorably upon, say: any old banty rooster Texas loudmouth ever! lecturing The Entire Planet, as one Did, over the past year. In the end it is the Goodwill budget which has reached bankruptcy, with not so much as a (token) 'by your leave' or "thanks for your kind words and deeds after 9/11". Nobody can miss the smirk and swagger of a bully (in several languages). I guess not many did miss.
What would it take to Make It So? Perhaps -?- massive reprinting of the 1992+ Manifesto of The Project for the New American Century into all popular languages? Seems to me that, with that alley cat out of the bag; it's perfect correspondence to the bellicose and dismissive rhetoric of this Wastrel-led Cabal, the 1:1 correspondence of the BOD of that org and the Wastrel's Cabinet and cronies (plus the maudlin religiosity of the phraseology) :
Would anyone like to test the effect of that reprinting & distribution, next?
Ashton
IMO - We Ain't Seen Nothin yet!