pitohui
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Wed Feb-20-08 02:27 PM
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24. we have no empire to support |
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i'm always entertained by this bold talk of the american empire, from a country that literally cannot invade and hold even the smallest of nations, well, i guess we beat grenada, but even then? where is the empire? we don't now possess grenada
the great empires like britain and rome actually went out there and for a time managed to conquer and hold their various possessions, something the usa has never achieved
if you look at what empire "is" then it's something that for whatever reason the usa is completely incompetent at and that no one really supports, because who wants to be a loser supporting these failed adventures in vietnam, iraq, and so on -- i'm pretty sure we know from repeated polls that the MAJORITY of americans oppose these adventures
now if you say in a poll, is america the best, rah rah, sure, everybody's going to say rah rah back
it doesn't mean we're an empire any more than a lot of folks saying rah rah saints in new orleans means the saints won the superbowl
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