OMNI and the Fall of the “American Empire”

I have decided to take up Yangban’s challenge to do this piece of journalism (crap) from Oh My News justice. The author of this article, Michael Werbowski is trying to make a comparison that the US of today will fall just like the Roman Empire. In his agenda driven article he provides his (day dreamed) examples of why this is about to happen. Let me start with this example:

Rome extended the borders of its vast empire in conquest after conquest then exacted a “tribute,” or tax, on its subjected citizens. It was a reasonable trade off: the subjected peoples in return for a paying a “head tax” to their imperial overlords enjoyed the privileges of Roman civil rights and protection from barbarians thanks to the mighty empire’s legions.

This isn’t a bad idea because right now my tax dollars are going to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Korea, etc. So if we can get these people to pay us taxes that would really help the American tax payer. No Mr. Werbowski would prefer Americans pay more taxes:

This is compounded by a presidency restricted to promoting a corporate agenda at the expense of the greater good of the nation. Added to this is an administration willing and able to wage war, but not pay for it with higher taxes or able to ask it’s youngest to make the “ultimate sacrifice.” It is also unable to provide housing or decent pensions for its “war heroes” on the home front. This untenable situation led to uprisings among the armed legions of Rome and triggered revolts within the Roman imperial armies. Perhaps America should do more to keep its troops happy.

What does this guy know about making the “ultimate sacrifice”? US military members every day are giving up their lives for idiots like him to make such comments. Plus if US soldiers are on the verge of a uprising than why are recruiting numbers for Fiscal Year 06 so high?:

Companant Accessions Goal Percent
Army 25,973 25,100 103%
Navy 12,454 12,236 102%
Marines 11,572 11,050 105%
Air Force 12,064 11,994 101%

Plus why have reenlistment numbers been through the roof for the past 9 months and counting? Also I take it Mr. Werbowski has never seen US military housing before such as on Ft. Carson or Ft. Lewis for example.

Fort Carson Housing Community

Here is more of his ranting:

By contrast, the U.S. exports “freedom and democracy.” Decoded, these two words usually associated with liberty, in today’s context really mean tutelage by the World Bank and the IMF in the form of debt repayments. Freedom, in the form of free trade agreements, is exported around the globe, which enables corporations to usurp national sovereignty and operate beyond the “rule of law” with impunity in pursuit of greater market access. In the process, this forces “target nations” to give up their rights over their domestic industries to multinational control and ownership.

That IMF loan given to Korea during the Asian Financial Crisis saved the Korean economy. Where would Korea be today without it? Plus would the author prefer countries have no jobs instead of jobs from multi-national corporations? Maybe he does so they can all be on socialist welfare.

This has to be the most hysterical passage of the entire article:

The U.S. also exports its culture, such as video games and instant gratification in the form of fast food, to create an overweight and chronically ill populace on a global scale. This resembles a much cruder version of Rome’s bread and circuses, which distracted both the citizens and the conquered masses at the same time. At home, America offers its growing illiterate, incarcerated or homeless population a brief reprieve from their pitiful existence by means of a computer generated “virtual reality.”

I didn’t know the US had a policy that instead of funding soup kitchens the government funds PC Bangs for homeless people and convicts to play video games.

I also didn’t know the US government was allowing cattle ranchers to murder Mexican immigrants either:

One poor Mexican’s dream is another Arizona cattle rancher’s nightmare. Border states have mounted a patriotic resistance to this onslaught by keeping an armed militia on patrol to search for and often destroy undocumented day laborers with the benign consent of an overworked and underpaid U.S. border patrol.

Where is this guys proof that cattle ranchers are mass murdering Mexican illegals crossing the Arizona border? How is this responsible journalism? Here he continues his bashing of the US military:

On the foreign front of the global scale American-state, the war in Afghanistan against terror is being fought without the proper amount of ground troops. The same is true in Iraq. U.S. Special Forces try to win the “war on terror” by terrorizing local villagers who shelter their own “freedom fighters.” Wielding a big stick without dangling a carrot to the Afghan resistance, or any other armed opposition to the ongoing occupation, is unlikely to quell the ongoing uprisings in poor and backward states.

Here is a video of the American terrorizers at work. I could write a whole posting on this, but I hate listening to leftists talk about “freedom fighters” when us in the military have seen what the leftist’s freedom fighters really are. It makes me sick when these leftists dignify these pieces of human garbage as “freedom fighters”.

The rest of the article goes on about the usual leftist, Michael Moore conspiracy theory talking points of the war on terror being about oil yet there is no oil in Afghanistan and about how bad of a country the United Kingdom is. Overall being compared to the Roman Empire in my opinion isn’t a bad thing.

Let’s see the Roman Empire was founded by Augustus on 31BC and ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453; the US has been around since 1776 so that would mean, (leftist anti-Americans mark this date on your calendar) that the US “Empire” should fall just like the Roman Empire some where around 3260! 1,254 more years of pax-Americana! So if Mr. Werbowski wants to compare the US to the Roman Empire than go ahead. The Roman Empire was one of the greatest civilizations ever just like America. The Romans just like any civilization had it’s faults but the Romans did far more good than bad for the ancient world just like America is continuing to do far more good than bad in today’s modern world.