By: Medea Benjamine and Nicolas JS Davies
If the Democrats manage to push Joe Biden over the finish line
in November’s election, he will find himself presiding over a decadent,
declining empire. He will either continue the policies that have led the
American empire to decadence and decline, or seize the moment to move our
nation into a new phase: a transition to a peaceful and sustainable
post-imperial future.
The
foreign policy team Biden assembles will be key, including his choice for
Secretary of Defense. But Biden’s rumored favorite, Michele Flournoy, is not
the gal for this historic moment. Yes, she would break the glass ceiling as the
first female Secretary of Defense, but, as one of the architects of our endless
wars and record military budgets, she would only help to steer the American empire
farther down its current path of lost wars, corrupt militarism and terminal decline.
