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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19622)2/23/2002 3:50:05 AM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
The American empire. This is a premise. That there is an American empire. Iis there such an animal?

I'm sure someone tackled this, But nevermind. Never hurts to look at a premise if a whole book or even school of argument is based on it.

As someone mentioned the US doesn't extract tribute from subject nations or hold subject nations in slavery.

I don't think it's even run a proxy war in the last ten years.

It's the most powerful nation but that doesn't make it an empire.

It has great influence because of its wealth and military power but it's not an empire.

Well, because of this last it could be argued that it's like and emptre. An analogy, simile, metaphor, is not the the thing itself.

There is no doubt some within and outside the US try and behave like it is an empire by taking advantage of its power and wealth but mostly they seem to come to a bad end.

Folk get confused about the US because it's unprecedented; It's the first time the most powerful nation on earth is not an empire. Furthermore, it's a democracy. And furthermore, it's modernist and secularist (except for John Ashcroft). It's also brash and vulgar in many, not all, its manifestations.

It gets under lots of folk's skins. It particularly irritates intellectual snobs. And it irritates idealists who despair that a country founded on a document written in such beautiful prose can be so, so, so, inconsistent.!

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