The New Neo-Con Reality

The End of the American Road

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
CounterPunch

""We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

--Bush White House aide explaining the New Reality

The New American Century lasted a decade. Financial crisis and defeated objectives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Georgia brought the neoconservative project for American world hegemony crashing to a close in the autumn of 2008.......

Perhaps the neoconservative project for world hegemony would have lasted a bit longer had the neocons possessed intellectual competence......."