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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	8/9/2003 12:25:05 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (2) of 769670

The ideology, culture and institutions of the American republic do not jibe with its new imperial role in the world. dubyaMD bush and the fascist neocons must conceal their ambitions, not so much from the world community which understands very well what's going on, but from the US public. The average American is never more supportive of their country's foreign policy than when they have only the vaguest idea what it actually entails. And since the existence of a U.S. empire is denied, public discussion of the problems of empire is impossible. In this, the United States closely resembles the Soviet Union, which passed off its occupation of Afghanistan as "fraternal assistance". Hypocrisy is a shaky foundation for foreign policy, particularly in a country that considers itself a democracy. When the British empire was putting down uprisings in India, it could still boast of upholding democracy for "its own." The situation in America is fundamentally different. U.S. imperial policy will either lead to the erosion of the country's democratic institutions, or American democracy will rise up and bring an end to the grand imperial design.

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