Planet Earth.

Editor,

Does the author of this article live on the planet Earth?

The American Empire is enforcing its hegemony as we speak with the threat, if not the outright use, of the most powerful, expensive military machine the world has ever seen. Threats are made daily that the "military option" is "on the table." Drones wield thunderbolts from the skies, killing anyone the rulers of our nation care to.

I can empathize with the author's hope that no coalition of parties who today are under the iron thumb of the United States manage to reduce our nation to rubble as the Allies did to Hitler's Germany and Hirohito's Japan. I like not having to worry about being bombed, strafed, or otherwise shot at. But the USA is an imperial power, and it rules as all imperial powers have ruled: with military might.

Re: "War Really Is Going Out of Style" (12/18/2011)