The Raptor’s Eye in Washington, DC: General Petraeus, JIEDDO and Auntie’s Pervert* by John Stanton…

The United States of America remains the preeminent global empire very much by design. Its expansion was not by accident. In fact, it was a necessity. Indeed, America’s instruments of national power–diplomatic, intelligence, military, economic, financial, law enforcement, information and people–remain unmatched in their productive capacity, global reach and destructive power. There is no nation-state