Costs of Empire

Echoing Chalmers Johnson's recent sentiments, David Isenberg tackles the costs of American empire in a two-part feature for the Asia Times (part I and part II).

"The process of creating and maintaining an empire, like making sausage or passing congressional legislation, is not a pretty process," he warns. "In fact, it is costly, very costly, in terms of lives, money and liberty. It requires a large military establishment, which can consume a substantial, if not disproportionate amount of the national treasury. And it requires stationing and deploying forces around the world."