Dave,
Re: As far as I'm concerned we can have a military installation in every country in the world if necessary to protect our security. That doesn't mean we are taking over the world.
Let's reverse roles here as a hypothetical. Say China, for instance, had navies on every sea, and military installations in upwards of 50 foreign sovereign nations. As an American citizen, looking across I-5 and seeing a Chinese airbase, army base or naval facility, would I not conclude that this presence was for the purpose of perhaps not "taking over the world" per se, but at least controlling it to a very large extent?
This is exactly the situation faced by the citizens of Okinawa, around Ramstein, Germany, in South Korea, and I won't even mention the native people of Diego Garcia who were simply deported from their homes to make way for our huge supply base in the Indian Ocean.
If you think we aren't trying to dominate the world, you've got to do more reading. Listening to shills like Bill O'Reilly, for example, isn't any sort of way to educate yourself about geopolitics.
Here's a good place to start:
The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski
amazon.com
This is the imperial game plan the GWB is currently carrying out. |
