On 2/28/2010 5:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Adam Maas
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, John Sessoms
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: "P. J. Alling"
>>>
>>> I hate it when people wave Charles Johnson around, I happen to
have
>>> degrees in Economics and History, and I think he's full of
crap. ?Then again
>>> I'm not an academic and I don't have to be nice to these people.
>>
>> Who is "Charles Johnson"?
>
> He's the proprietor of the Little Green Footballs blog and the person
> who proved that the 60 Minutes Bush ANG Memos were fakes.
Something of
> a raging crank, but also something of an expert on font
> implementations in Word Processors (He wrote a fair bit of the font
> code for one of the more popular Amiga word processors). That made
him
> somewhat famous, but he's also the classic example of a Liberal who's
> been mugged (Conservative only due to Sept 11, in reality rather much
> left wing aside from a severe dislike for Islamic terrorists)
>
>
As a note, I'm pretty sure PJ was referring to Chalmers Johnson, not
Charles. I'm not familiar with Chalmers.
Hard for me to understand how anyone would get the two confused then.
Chalmers Johnson is a former Naval Officer, CIA consultant and
Professor Emeritus of Political Science at UC San Diego. Founder of
Japan Policy Research Institute. Early critic of neo-liberal economic
policies(aka neo-conservatism)using Japanese economic stagnation in
the 90s as his model.
Came to question the increase in U.S. post-Soviet militarism worldwide
and the over reliance on military "solutions" in the absence of any
real global competitor. Chalmers Johnson holds that America's hegemony
is a global empire based on overseas military bases and that increased
U.S. militarism abroad reduces U.S. domestic security by fostering ill
feeling and encourages terrorism.
Probably best known for his trilogy:
* Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
He ignores the costs of doing nothing. Forgets the consequences of
having a different suzerain in the world. The only other nation that's
been in a compariable position to the one the United States holds today
during it's entire history was the British Empire. It's interesting to
speculate what the world would be like under expansionist China or
historically God forbid, a Nazi Germany, or for that matter an Imperial
Russia or Imperial Japan, in the same position. I dare say they would
make the World a less comfortable place for small rich republics. Maybe
we can get the British to take up the mantle again and we can retire to
complacency.
* The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Anyone who thinks the United States has anything like a traditional
empire is foolish in the extreme. The republic may be over. I fear
that may be true, but I don't think that the Trade Coalition we preside
over is the cause.
* Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
What they have in common is my disdain. Though for different reasons.
I would truly like to see the restoration of the Republic to something
like it's original form, but that requires educating an entire
generation to the Rule of Thumb social engineering of the founders and
away from current academic theories which seem to be at odds with reality.
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