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"arrogant and misguided American policies (that) headed us for a series of catastrophes comparable to our disgrace and defeat in Vietnam or even to the sort of extinction that befell....the Soviet Union (that he believes is) now unavoidable."
Calling America's condition dire, he said it's "too late for mere scattered reforms of our government or bloated military to make much difference." History is clear, he stressed. We can choose democracy and survive. Or continue as present and perish, saying America is plagued by the same dynamic that doomed past empires unwilling to change, what he called:
"isolation, overstretch, the uniting of local and global forces opposed to imperialism, and in the end bankruptcy," combined with authoritarian rule and loss of personal freedom.
Hence, his title, Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance and punisher of hubris and arrogance in Greek mythology. She's already among us, unseen and patiently stalking our way of life as a free nation, awaiting her moment to appear, our day of reckoning.
Johnson compared her to Wagner's Brunnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen. Unlike Nemesis, she collects heros, not fools and hypocrites. But she and Nemesis announce themselves the same way: "Only the doomed see me," even though her presence harms everyone.
Post-9/11, Johnson railed against destructive policies driving the country to tyranny and ruin, citing:
-- a nation with no enemies permanently at war;
-- a secret, unaccountable global torture prison gulag;
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