{"id":158245,"date":"2015-06-10T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=158245"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:40:48","slug":"imperial-overstech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/imperial-overstech\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Overstech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world \u2013 the sole superpower.<\/p>\n<p>After five weeks of \u201cshock and awe\u201d and 100 hours of combat, Saddam\u2019s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad.<\/p>\n<p>Our Cold War adversary was breaking apart into 15 countries. The Berlin Wall had fallen. Germany was reunited. The captive nations of Central and Eastern Europe were breaking free.<\/p>\n<p>Bush I had mended fences with Beijing after the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin were friends.<\/p>\n<p>The president declared the coming of a \u201cnew world order.\u201d And neocons were chattering about a new \u201cunipolar world\u201d and the \u201cbenevolent global hegemony\u201d of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Consider now the world our next president will inherit.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea, now a nuclear power ruled by a 30-something megalomaniac, is fitting ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2015\/06\/patrick-j-buchanan\/imperial-overstech\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world \u2013 the sole superpower. After five weeks of \u201cshock and awe\u201d and 100 hours of combat, Saddam\u2019s army had fled Kuwait back up the road to Basra and Bagdad. Our Cold War adversary was breaking apart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}