The mysteries of the American empire By : Fred Halliday

The narrative of the United States's long-term decline or retreat is open to detailed challenge on the basis of the historical record and current realities, says Fred Halliday. 3 - 12 - 2007

The debate on the future of American power – and what is increasingly (even casually) referred to as the American “empire” – is almost as old as the United States itself. It was Alexis de Tocqueville who, in the 1830s, anticipated a future dominated by the two continental states of Russia and America; and the Time magazine editor Henry Luce who, in 1941, on the eve of America’s decisive entry into both the Pacific and European wars, predicted “the American century”. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE : http://tinyurl.com/yvu698