End of US Imperium

Imperium defined by Google: absolute power -"it was the high noon of the imperium, an age when there was something empowering about being an American"

The End of U.S. Imperium—Finally! - The Daily Beast: "....After having rained napalm, white phosphorous, bunker busters, drone missiles, and the most violent machinery of conventional warfare ever assembled upon millions of innocent Vietnamese, Cambodians, Serbs, Somalis, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis, Yemeni, Libyans, and countless more, Washington now presupposes to be in the moral-sanctions business? That’s downright farcical. Nevertheless, by declaring himself the world’s spanker in chief, President Obama has unwittingly precipitated the mother of all clarifying moments...."

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