Quotes: "History teaches us..."

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Like the Chinese, Ottoman, Hapsburg, imperial German, Nazi, imperial Japanese, British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and Soviet empires in the last century, we are approaching the edge of a huge waterfall and are about to plunge over it.--Chalmers Johnson

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I began to study our continuous military buildup since WW II and the 737 military bases we currently maintain in other people's countries. This empire of bases is the concrete manifestation of our global hegemony, and many of the blowback-inducing wars we have conducted had as their true purpose the sustaining and expanding of this network. We do not think of these overseas deployments as a form of empire...--Chalmers Johnson

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The concept 'blowback' does not just mean retaliation for things our government has done to and in foreign countries. It refers to retaliation for the numerous illegal operations we have carried out abroad that were kept totally secret from the American public.--Chalmers Johnson

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. See at the bottom for the answer

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..the sorrows (of empire that are) already invading our lives, which [are] likely to be our fate for years to come: perpetual war, a collapse of constitutional government, endemic official lying and disinformation, and finally bankruptcy.--Chalmers Johnson


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...as militarism, the arrogance of power, and the euphemisms required to justify imperialism inevitably conflict with America's democratic structure of government and distort its culture and basic values, I fear that we will lose our country.--Chalmers Johnson

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History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.--Chalmers Johnson

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The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment and the profligate use of it in missions for which it is hopelessly inappropriate will, sooner rather than later, condemn the United States to a devastating trio of consequences: imperial overstretch, perpetual war, and insolvency, leading to a likely collapse similar to that of the former Soviet Union.--Chalmers Johnson

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MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

MYSTERY ANSWER: Marcel Proust