The suicide option -- What we did. Blowback world -- Empire v. democracy -- The smash of civilizations -- Peddling democracy -- Spies, rogues, and mercenaries. Agency of rogues -- An imperialist comedy -- Warning : mercenaries at work -- Baseworld. America's empire of bases -- America's unwelcome advances -- Baseless expenditures -- The Pentagon takes us down. Going bankrupt -- The military-industrial man -- We have the money (if only we didn't waste it on the defense budget) -- Economic death spiral at the Pentagon -- How to end it. Dismantling the empire.
Summary
The author argues that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe will continue to exact a price at home unless President Obama begins to crack down on the Pentagon before it successfully dismantles the American Dream.
