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To: LLCF who wrote (43522)	12/27/2005 7:49:26 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

>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,...< The reference is from Wikipedia, at last count a highly respected encyclopedia from this planet... As noted before, it has the following heading: Modern "empires" en.wikipedia.org It states: ...many suggest its powerful military and economic influences allow it to exert a sort of informal neo-imperial hegemony* on much of the modern world...* This paragraph appears under the heading "empire" and therefore seems tightly coupled to that definition. Here is another reference from Wikipedia that uses the term "Empire" in reference to the U.S. American Empire en.wikipedia.org The American Empire is a politically charged, informal term sometimes used to describe the current political, economic, and cultural influence of the United States on a global scale. It is generally, though by no means always, used with a negative connotation. The current debate over the concept of an American Empire usually involves two basic questions: Is the United States currently an empire? If so, is that good or bad? Proponents of the term claim that it is an appropriate one, based on the unrivaled superpower status of the United States after the end of the Cold War. Some believe that there has been a long history of United States imperialism expressed in the cultural ethos of Manifest Destiny and American exceptionalism. Even though the use of the term American Empire is very common, its use can be considered inappropriate, as the word America may be considered culturally aggressive to some people. Many US former colonies have since become independent countries, states of the American union, or self-governing commonwealths. However, despite the fact that these countries are legally independent, the US has often intervened military or otherwise influenced their domestic affairs. Examples of military intervention are the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 or the invasion of Panama in 1989. An example of non-military intervention in former U.S. colonies are the assassination attempts on Fidel Castro and the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. And here is a reference to "empire" from the Encyclopedia Britanica. It seems they also consider the term appropriate: britannica.com History > Imperialism, the Progressive era, and the rise to world power, 1896–1920 > American imperialism > The new American empire McKinley easily defeated Bryan in 1900. The victory, however, was hardly a mandate for imperialism, and, as events were soon to disclose, the American people were perhaps the most reluctant imperialists in history. No sooner had they acquired an overseas empire than they set in motion the process of its dissolution or transformation. By the so-called Teller Amendment to… Now it looks to me that the term "empire" in conjunction with the U.S. isn't quite out of line even on this planet or is it?

To: LLCF who wrote (43522)	12/27/2005 8:31:55 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

>... but you've misused the word empire... period.< Just one more definition. Note that the empire definition really doesn't require an emperor and that there were several different empires that do not fit your far too narrow dictionary definition. answers.com ... Empires can accrete around different types of state. They have traditionally originated as powerful monarchies under the rule of a hereditary (or in some cases, self-appointed) emperor, but the so-called empires of Athens, Britain and the United States developed under democratic auspices. Brazil leapt from colonial to self-declared empire status in 1822. France has twice made the transition from republic to empire. ...