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and I would not be surprised to see a re-vote or some other gimmick to undo it.

But this is HUGE.

This is the inevitable result of the idiocy of our foreign policy since September 11, 2011. Bush and Obama have proven to the world that we are unable to win the wars we start, yet our internal politics roll along with obsessive discussions of whether Bernie Sanders is a sexist for using the word, "shouting."

Not even Bernie is attacking the $700 billion plus defense budget, or the "Bush Doctrine" -- the forgotten national security policy revolution that Obama has not revoked. No, we no longer rely on the Deterrence that won the Cold War, and we still harbor the fantasy that we can use our military "might" to prevent other countries from making trouble by picking their governments for them.

This was idiotic when Dick Cheney first proposed it in the Poppy Bush administration and it got laughed off the national stage. It was still idiotic after September 11, but idiocy became chic in those days when Irony Was Dead, Every Thing Had Changed and the frat rat bozo name Dubya became the reincarnation of Winston Churchill.


Well, 14 years later, we ain'tt the Big Dog of the world any more, even with our insane military budget. The European Union's governing body, by this razor thin vote, just told us so.


Like all dying Empires, our Imperial Court will only realize that our turn on top is over when the barbarians breach through the gates. That is still a long way off, maybe even decades before the inevitable humiliation comes -- and they probably still have enough bluff and bullshit to undo this symbolic shooting of Europe's Finger at us.


We can at least hope that the rest of the world will show us the kind of mercy that we would never think of affording to the peoples of the countries we invade with troops or bomb from the air. Whatever our long term fate, this is a milestone on the road away from American Empire.

Cheers, Europe!