Overwrought Empire

Overwrought Empire

by Tom Engelhardt

Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism — think of it as the real “American Century” — from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and [...]http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/10/09/overwrought-empire/