US presidential candidates in both main parties embrace and propose to expand on American imperialism to secure resources for the country. America has been the dominant force in capitalist imperialism since winning the first and second world wars.
There were many shots fired yesterday as the "wife feud" between Donald (and Melania) Trump and Ted (and Heidi) Cruz hit new lows, dragging none other than the National Enquirer tabloid into it and escalating the #CruzSexScandal into one of the most talked about topics on social media.
An American reader writes:
We’re drinking the Monkish Blonde this Easter season and giving thanks for all the good people in the world trying to keep the faith.
Amen, sister! I wish a blessed Easter weekend to all my readers observing the holy day.
I’m overdue to follow up on my lament for the end of the Obama Administration, specifically with respect to foreign policy, and to respond to Daniel Larison’s cogent criticisms of that piece.
Precisely because I think Larison’s criticisms are cogent, I don’t feel the need to rebut them. President Obama has been anything but anti-interventionist, and specifically started at least one outright dumb war (against Libya) of the precise sort that he ran for office claiming he wouldn’t launch.
But I do want to defend my Eisenhower comparison a bit. Larison says:
Submitted by Russell Whitehouse via OrientalReview.org,