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To: Neeka who wrote (85338)	3/23/2003 8:51:28 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

That's the problem with a thread that has 85K posts on it. I was part of a discussion about this a while ago, holding the position that it was 1898, the Spanish-American War, when the U.S. finished adding territory that would become States populated by citizens (Hawaii), and started adding colonies (populations un-assimilable, subjects who would never get full citizenship rights). Most of our colonies since then, have been colonies-by-proxy, where we hold effective military/political/economic control, while erecting a facade of sovereignty. Too many to list, in that catagory. The effort put into colonization-by-proxy by the U.S., waxes and wanes over time, and is bi-partisan. It's waxing at the moment. Under the Democrats, we would see a KindlerAndGentler Imperialism. There is a clear historical pattern, that any nation getting powerful enough to act unilaterally and globally, elicits a coalition of all the second-ranking powers, to contain the Hegemon. This is a pattern which holds, totally irrespective of the ideology of any nation. So, today, we are creating (by our aggressive unilateralism) a French-German-Russian-Chinese coalition to Deter/Contain the U.S. And the more aggressive we are, the more unilateral we act, the more countries will see us as a Rogue State. Public opinion polls already say that Bush, not Saddam or Kim, is seen as the biggest threat to global peace. And I don't mean just in Palestine or Pakistan, I mean in places like England and Japan, who should be our natural allies.