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splatteru 9 months ago
The Imperial Presidency allows our nation's elected President (when not selected by the Supreme Court) to become a Rogue Emperor in the worst traditions of the Roman Empire. No accountability, no liability, no transparency as evidenced most recently by the Bush regime. The founding fathers foreshadowed that these sorts of powers would be the greatest threat to the newly formed representative government. It is up to Congress to reign these rogues in, but clearly, Congress is not up to the task. One institution after the other (NSA, CIA, Justice, State Dept., DOD)is manipulated and corrupted when the the Executive Branch is allowed Imperial power.
splatteru 9 months ago
In Empire America, as with all empires, it is only War Crimes when the other side does it. And the winners of wars only prosecute crimes on the losing side. I believe this is why John Mc Cain was so adamant that we win in Iraq. He didn't want Empire America exposed for what it is: a country whose foreign policy is driven by Corporate interests abroad: be it carving out new consumer markets and cheap labor markets for the West, establishing new military bases to protect corporate interests and contracts abroad, or installing new regimes in natural resource nations who are happy to let Big Oil have a piece of every barrel of oil lifted out of the ground. Democracy and freedom are only incidental to this policy, and have to be cancelled whenever it interferes with corporate American interests mentioned earlier, as is the case when sovereign democratic nations wish to nationalize their nations natural treasures to improve more rapidly their own development as opposed to the more rapid development of profits for the multi-national oil corps. and their share-holders. Of course giant infrastructure construction corps. and international banking are always licking their chops when a new market has been conquered and opened to their services. This is the ugly side of international capitalism that too many of our leaders are okay with from both sides of the aisle. War crimes trials would lead back to the architects of these wars in the private sector, elite Corporations, and their motives and influence on our foreign policy and militarism.