Tuesday, May 9, 2000
If anyone doubts the trend toward Empire, read:
http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20000508/t000043416.html
in which it is now explicitly assumed that the United States will continue to meddle in everyone else's affairs, and that Allbright's comment "What is the use of having a splendid army if we don't use it?" has become the policy of nearly everyone in government, Republican and Democrat alike.
[..] It then concludes that we need troops dedicated to this type of work.
The need for colonial police or a national constabulary, permanent divisions of military government troops, career peace keepers, is obvious -- for an Empire. For a self-governing Republic whose policy is "We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guardians only of our own," the needs are a bit different.
However, I can suggest a way to solve this problem. We can recruit an American Legion. It will be headquartered on one of the Illyrian islands -- I am sure we can cause someone over there to give us one. It's a pleasant enough place. Alternatively, perhaps Algeria would lease us Sidi bel Abbes for a headquarters. The troops enlisting get a new name, and need not be American citizens: but they get citizenship after 20 years of honorable service. We could then put the best of our jail population to work, and recruiting officers could look all over the world for Legionnaires.
Of course one provision of the Legion is that it will NEVER set foot on American soil...
But then -- "They had learned the dread secret, that Emperors could be made in places other than Rome." Tacitus
A pensarci bene la cosa è logica, anche se un po' fuori moda.
Terra - A new Empire is born..... [..] accorrete in massa a celebrare: abbiamo un nuovo Impero (ed un nuovo Imperatore??).............in questo documento - "The National Security Strategy for the United States of America" - (11 capitoli, disponibili anche in .pdf !), troverete parole magnifiche e assolutamente condivisibili, nobili e nello spirito dei padri fondatori, ma dove il senso del disegno è antico, e ricalcato sulla falsariga della storia del nostro continenente: quello di un Impero e delle sue Province. [Captain NEMO's Radio Weblog]
