OUR EMPIRE

"We are coming to a twenty-first century crisis in America's informal empire, an empire based on the projection of military power to every corner of the world and the use of American capital and markets to force global economic integration on our terms, at whatever costs to others ... What form our imperial crisis is likely to take years or even decades from now is, of course, impossible to know. But history indicates that, sooner or later, empires reach such moments, and it seems reasonable  to assume that we will not miraculously escape that fate."

Chalmers Johnson
 Blowback: the cost and consequences of American Empire (2000)