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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (64442)1/5/2003 1:43:43 PM
From: paul_philp  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

If it was possible, as recently as the end of the last century, to have a serious debate as to whether the US is/was an imperial power, it is no longer so. The counter argument, built out of US government statements, that it was not so, are now gone. We are and Ignatieff is right to write now about the consequences.


The argument that America is imperialist is still incorrect. America is the most powerful country and culture in a highly integrate world. Like any power, America is Machiavellian but that is not that same as imperial. Ignatieff is one of the few who argue American imperialism who bothers to get the big picture correct. His conclusion is wrong or, at a minimum, lazy.

Paul
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