OP-ED: Liquidating the Empire, by Patrick J. Buchanan, Human Events, 10/14/2008

Trenchant piece, as they say.

But Buchanan's take on "empire" is really all that dies here. For those who perceive America's main power in, and primary impact on, this world in military terms, the end of the world is clearly near.

But what really dies here? Unilateralism, go-it-alone-ism, "primacy," and the chimera that a "league of democracies" or the West is a sufficient quorum to rule the world.

Globalization comes with rules, not a ruler. Those rules, while under constant revision, apply to all. Our exceptionalism is path-breaking, not treaty-busting.

So all that really dies here is the neocon dreams and the bankruptcy of this administration's simplistic foreign policy.

Reality is mostly made up of economics in this world of our creating. Some of us just didn't get the memo, but more got the eviction notice.

(Thanks: Elmer Humes)