Perhaps the best way to offer my thoughts on this is to say a few words about my new book, Nemesis, and explain why I gave it the subtitle, “The Last Days of the American Republic.” Nemesis is the third book to have grown out of my research over the past eight years. Why this is so can be a very abstract subject. History tells us that one of the most unstable political combinations is a country - like the United States today - that tries to be a domestic democracy and a foreign imperialist. While you’re waiting for the book to arrive in your hands, you can get a little preview of its themes below. As with Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire before it, Nemesis, Johnson’s grand, if grim, conclusion to our American tragedy, is simply a must-read. It is a reminder of just how far we’ve moved from the sort of democratic America that the President is always holding up as a model to the rest of the world. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, the final volume of his Blowback Trilogy, is about to storm your local bookstore (and can be pre-ordered at Amazon now). The facts on the ground - the vastness of the Pentagon, the power of the military-industrial complex, the inept but already bloated Homeland Security Department (and the vast security interests coalescing around it), the staggering alphabet (or acronym) soup of the “Intelligence Community” - all of this militates against real change, which is why we need Chalmers Johnson. They created the sort of dystopian imperial reality (as well as a mess of future-busting proportions) that a generation of relative sanity might not be able to fully reverse. as the “new Rome” of planet Earth now seem to exist on the other side of some Startrekkian wormhole.Īnd yet the imperial damage remains everywhere around us. The days when neocons, their supporters, and attending pundits talked about the U.S. A midterm election and subsequent devastating polling figures tell the tale. The dream of the Bush administration - eternal global domination abroad with no other superpower or bloc of powers on the military horizon and a Republican Party dominant at home for at least a generation - long ago evaporated in Iraq.
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