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Director Oliver Stone On History. And America, Jim Morrison & Ron Paul.
An Exclusive Interview

JANUARY 2012 BY ED RAMPELL

RCM:  In Our History you ask if there’s “a potential wild card in an internal economic collapse of the empire”? Is America an empire? And if so, do you foresee the fall of the empire?

OS:  Yes.  Yes, both.   I don’t think it’s a wild card, I think it’s a given. There’s no way that we can continue this spending spree.  In fact, I think in many ways the most interesting candidate – I’d even vote for him if he was running against Obama – is Ron Paul.  Because he’s the only one of anybody who’s saying anything intelligent about the future of the world.

How do we go on being who we are? We have an identity crisis here.  But as long as we keep running this fantasy through our minds that we can dominate history, it’s not a wild card, it’s a given!

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So you tell me, what have we learned?  Or who’s faking, or who’s kidding who?  Why is it necessary for every candidate – except for Ron Paul – to pay obeisance to this hypocrisy that the U.S. is a good force in the world, and that it is the dominant force, and can be the policeman of the world?  Since when?  What gave us that right?  The right of empire, the right of force?

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