Paul Craig Roberts: Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris?

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*Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris?*

***For a country incapable of occupying Iraq after 8 years and incapable of
occupying Afghanistan after 11 years, to simultaneously take on two nuclear
powers is an act of insanity. The hubris in Washington, fed daily by the
crazed neocons, despite extraordinary failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, has
now targeted formidable powers--Russia and China.
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*By Paul Craig Roberts*

June 29, 2012 "Information Clearing
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-- When President Reagan nominated me as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy, he told me that we had to restore the US
economy, to rescue it from stagflation, in order to bring the full weight
of a powerful economy to bear on the Soviet leadership, in order to
convince them to negotiate the end of the cold war. Reagan said that there
was no reason to live any longer under the threat of nuclear war.

The Reagan administration achieved both goals, only to see these
accomplishments discarded by successor administrations. It was Reagan’s own
vice president and successor, George Herbert Walker Bush, who first
violated the Reagan-Gorbachev understandings by incorporating former
constituent parts of the Soviet Empire into NATO and taking Western
military bases to the Russian frontier.

The process of surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated