end of empire

Do americans,who cheered ronald reagans admonishment to mikael gorbachev to "tear down this wall',not recall that the 'Gipper' was sending ground to air missles & myriad other weapons/ammunition to "our" mujadeen in afghanistan.Who among "patriots'did not cheer the grizzly videotapes of massacres of russian soldiers in roadside ambushes; what "child of democracy" did not feel a glint of national pride when another russian chopper smoked into the bleak pashtun tundra?....Well we know that the russian incursion into afghanistan brought down the mighty socialist state.Loudly we praised those brave muslim warriors who repelled the invader/colonizers and freed wretched afghanistan from slavic domination......Well well well what a decade or two will do.....can we not see the same fate awaiting the mighty capitalist state?Bankrupt, weakened and reviled for our retreat from the relative civility of the geneva conventions, the mighty 'corporatocracy' is reeling from a global and domestic revolt against its policies. "our mujahadeen"{ frankensteinlike} become the Taliban and our unwavering support of israeli policy no matter how barbaric, drives our former allies against russia into the hands of islamofundamentalists.