The American Empire
German philosopher Hegel (1770-1831) said, that just because men and women learned about the past, that didn't mean they'd make better decisions about the future. He once cynically commented, "What experience and history teach us is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." Years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, America towered over the world as a great giant—economically, culturally and militarily destined empire. Now, twenty years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, its armed services have clashed with the forces of Islamic extremism and terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the world. Today they are being marshalled in Washington, DC to protect the politically connected elites If that weren't bad enough, the worldwide economic crisis has laid the country low with high unemployment, an immense federal government deficit, rising inflation and depressed home va