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To: regli who wrote (43520)	12/27/2005 6:53:57 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

<I don't think I am changing any definition.> You're changing the definition of the word in every dictionary on the planet. Sorry. Even the highlighted portion of you link describes the US NOT as an empire, but: <I don't think I am changing any definition.> As I said... it certainly an interesting point to discuss the US role in the world using comcepts like similarities, etc... IMO more interesting is American Corporations... which is a whole different ball of wax... but you've misused the word empire... period. No one with any political science credentials would label the US an "empire" except as perhaps a characterization to sell books or some such thing. <The former Soviet Union had many of the criteria of an empire> Of course... and I agree, it WAS like an empire. The US has nothing to do with that. DAK