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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (7867)	10/28/2001 1:19:50 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Huh? We took over the mantle of Anglo-Saxon imperium when Britain failed financially in the '20's. We were the continuum of the "Great Game" in Asia in the 20th Century, a mirror image of the USSR role as the successor to Imperial Russia's grand expansion. We did? Then how come we don't have a global empire? After all, we spent 40 years as one of two superpowers, and the last ten as the sole superpower, the hyperpower as the French like to say. So tell me, where's our empire? Let's think back to 1946. Europe was in ruins. Two million Russians occupied Eastern Europe, and 1.6 million Americans occupied Western Europe (together with the allies). The US Army was begging Truman, just begging him, to have it out with the Russians now, while we were still strong and they were weak. After all, only we had the A-bomb! I call that a military advantage! which everyone knew would be only temporary. So what did Truman do? He demobilized the American army, except for sufficient troops to keep order in West Germany and guard against a Soviet invasion. Then he gave Western Europe the Marshall Plan so it could rebuild itself. So don't give me this 'mantle of Anglo-Saxon imperium' crap. I'm not buying any.