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To: John Chen who wrote (25036)	11/5/2004 12:59:31 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 306849

America faces the self-destructive choices which accompany all empires. A good model is England during the time of Victoria. You can see the themes played out in Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. Runyard Kipling, a great fan of Gladstone (the moralistic prig who thought England should police the world) coined the phrase "the white man's burden" which provided a spurious moral reason why England needed to defeat and colonize all nations not populated by whites and "civilize" their population. Disraeli, on the other hand, wanted to expand the English Empire simply for financial reasons. Financial reasons, which in the end, merely bankrupted England after they had spent their capital building the infrastructure and manufacturing capacity of foreign lands. I'm certain that people who don't live in empires must have the same self-destructive instincts, but as they don't have the ability to carry them out the amount of chaos and misery they can create is limited. Those who live in a time of empire lay the seeds of their own destruction simply because they can. All for allegedly good moral and financial reasons - all of which lead to destruction and ruin. .