Sunday, February 12, 2006

Imperial delusions by Devlin Buckley

“The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war.” –2006 Quadrennial Defense Review

“Long wars are usually strategic disasters . . ." –The Long War, William Sturgiss Lind

The Department of Defense’s recently updated Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) -- adapted from a neoconservative fairy tail -- illustrates the treacherously defective reasoning of an empire in denial. Using the threat of terrorism as a pretext for imperial mobilization, the 113-page 20-year defense strategy is designed to fail.

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