Beware the Dogs of War: Is the American Empire on the Verge of Collapse?

``... as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, all military empires fail. At the height of its power, even the mighty Roman Empire could not stare down a collapsing economy and a burgeoning military. Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise. As historian Chalmers Johnson warns, "Rome attempted to keep its empire and lost its democracy."''