The True Costs of Empire

The True Costs of Empire

by Tom Engelhardt

Mars? Venus? Earth-like bodies elsewhere in the galaxy? Who knows? But here, at least, no great power, no superpower, no hyperpower, not the Romans, nor imperial China, nor the British, nor the Soviet Union has ever garrisoned the globe quite the way we have: Asia to Latin America, Europe to the Greater Middle East, and [...]http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/12/11/the-true-costs-of-empire/