Before he was elected President Obama expressed some skepticism towards Pax Americana. Coming from the promisor of $2500 in insurance savings and keeping your medical plan and doctor, that skepticism was probably just another lie to solidify support among his party’s dwindling antiwar wing. Whatever his true feelings, Obama is now just as captured by the neoconservatives and the military-industrial-intelligence complex as his predecessors. Syria brings out Obama’s dithering and dissembling worst. If he does decide to play ball with Putin, the complex will regard it as a tactical retreat, not a sea change, and will do everything in its power to keep the flickering flame of global empire lit. There is too much money and power at stake to let it die.

Putin understands what they do not: while the power exists to destroy the world, that same power prevents any nation from ruling it. Unfortunately, delusion about the latter could lead to the former.

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