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To: carranza2 who wrote (200862)	3/29/2007 4:40:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) of 793725

what do you like about it c2? I see only a lot of academic bloviating about "imperial narratives" supposedly creating our enemies, who are not actually at war with us, except in our imaginations (and theirs, I might add). Just the standard line - America is the evil empire, everybody else can't help their reactions. "We say resistance is futile" he says. What are we now, the Borg? America is not a empire; it is a superpower. Globalization is happening as a function of the modern world; we couldn't stop it if we wanted to. It is not some plot dreamed up by the Emperor of America to broadcast a "sacred imperial narrative." Al Qaeda didn't blow up the World Trade Center because we were using it for a symbol; it became a symbol because it was actually one of the main hubs of global financial trade. Similarly, globalization follows patterns that are more American (& European) than anybody else's because the work better; so to the third world, globalization feels like Americanization and America becomes the symbol of globalization and the target for every backlash against it. This is because of how reality works, not because of some piece of rhetoric the President chose to use last week.

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