Introduction: the suicide option -- What we did : Blowback world -- Empire v. democracy -- The smash of civilizations -- Peddling democracy -- Spies, rogues, and mercenaries : Agency of rogues -- An imperialist comedy -- Warning: mercenaries at work -- Baseworld : America's empire of bases -- America's unwelcome advances -- Baseless expenditures -- The Pentagon takes us down : Going bankrupt -- The military-industrial man -- We have the money (if only we didn't waste it on the defense budget) -- Economic death spiral at the Pentagon -- How to end it : Dismantling the empire.
Summary:
The author argues that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe will continue to exact a price at home unless President Obama begins to crack down on the Pentagon before it successfully dismantles the American Dream.
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