If you haven’t yet, I hereby assign you to read Arthur Silber’s on-going series “Dominion Over the World”:

Part I: “Iraq is the Democrats’ War, Too”
Part II: “Why the Stories We Tell Matter So Much”
Part III: “The Open Door to Worldwide Hegemony”
Part IV: “A ‘Splendid People’ Set Out for Empire”
Part V: “A Global Empire of Bases”

And if you have it to spare, God will bless you if you slip Arthur a few bucks. There are few worthier causes in the blogosphere.