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Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands
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To: bramble88 who wrote (28613)2/24/2003 3:32:05 PM
From: bramble88  Read Replies (3) of 57110
 
Something that is generally ignored in this sort of discussion, because by necessity it is almost invisible to Americans (again-perspective), is the fact that this country is an empire (that should be Empire with a capital E). Empires are held up to different standards, and for some good reasons. An empire exercises more influence and more power. The claim that such and such peoples at such and such place should be grateful to us for saving them from whatever, is I think besides the point (many of them ARE grateful, no doubt). The US is not an empire because our values dictate that we have to protect the world from itself. It is an empire because we are engaged in pursuing what our leaders have identified as our national interest (and have been since this country's inception).

So if as a nation we chose to wield this kind of power and have the historical-socio-economic luck to be able to do so, we should expect to be held to a different standard. This is because our actions and even our culture (which we actively export -again, to satisfy what we see as our interests) heavily impact people around the world. Often, critisizing the US is the only say-so these people have in matters that effect them personally and directly.
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