The Sky Is Falling

Only this time it doesn't look like a false alarm. In "What Ever Happened to Congress?" Tom Engelhardt interviews Chalmers Johnson on Antiwar.com. It's one of the scariest things I've ever read.

In it, they discuss

1. the lunacy of the 2007 Pentagon budget
2. the out of control military
3. the huge expansion of executive branch powers
4. the failure of Congress to do its job
5. the collapse of the American economy
6. the fall of the Roman Empire

I don't see the obvious way out of our problems. The political system has failed. You could elect the opposition party, but it can't bring the CIA under control; it can't bring the military-industrial complex under control; it can't reinvigorate the Congress. It would be just another holding operation as conditions got worse.