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Mon Dec-05-05 02:24 PM
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IS AMERICA A SUPERPOWER OR AN EMPIRE? |
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Have there been any threads on this question on this forum? if so could someone please post the links for the threads here,so i can i have a good read.
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:25 PM
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1. Neither. Under the current administration, it is aspiring to be |
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:25 PM
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2. Use the search feature to find the answer to your question nt |
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:25 PM
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3. Define the difference between the two |
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As far as I'm concerned, 'Superpower' is the late 20th century term for 'Empire'.
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:26 PM
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4. A city like the mythical Troy was a superpower we are an Empire |
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To me a superpower is a nation that if it has its hands in anyone else's country or land it's typically for a mutual or noble cause; i.e. you give us wheat we give you bananas, and the power comes from the fact that the nation is strong yet respected more than feared.
America to me used to be a nation just like that but now....
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:49 PM
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Mon Dec-05-05 10:33 PM
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21. I know but the way it was portrayed in Homer's "The Ilad" was |
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:29 PM
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5. With over 1,000 known military bases scattered across the globe |
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I'd say that we are strongly in the "empire" category.
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Mon Dec-05-05 03:06 PM
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1000 bases,where did you get this info from? do you have a link?
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Tue Dec-06-05 09:36 AM
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26. 1,000 bases - from "The Sorrows of Empire" by Chalmers Johnson |
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He details the spread of our bases across the globe. Fascinating and enlightening reading, even for me, a veteran.
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:30 PM
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not any more, it wiill just take time for the reality to hit home
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:44 PM
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11. Boy, that was one quick case of imperial overreach |
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Soon after Mr. McGillicutty passed, his widow followed him to the grave. Without him, she lost her reason for being.
USSR RIP 1991. USA RIP 2006, '07 or '08?
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:31 PM
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7. Both, neither are exclusive of the other. |
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:33 PM
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:34 PM
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a past superpower turning into an international beligerent.
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:34 PM
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:55 PM
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13. Ancient Rome was often described as a great sow... |
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...with all her far-flung provinces ever suckling...
America seems more like a great, corpulent obese couch potato, desperately in need of bariatric surgery. Too obese and sedentary to do the hard work required to get back into shape. We keep ordering more and more nachos and ribs from China and Japan, while they loan us the money to pay the mortgage, because again, we're too fat to go out and earn any. Sure there is a huge arsenal of shotguns in the closet that we use to steal candy from the neighborhood kids, but It would hardly be fair to call a big, bloated bully a "superpower" or an "empire" would it?
At least that's how I see us.
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Mon Dec-05-05 02:58 PM
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Not really, not anymore - more like hired muscle for big corporations and other countries - the US will never pay off the debt from the iraq fiasco and the interest from that debt will prevent fixing the serious health, education, environmental, economic and infrastructure problems that would need to be fixed for the US to be a super power again.
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Mon Dec-05-05 03:08 PM
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Mon Dec-05-05 03:10 PM
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Tue Dec-06-05 06:23 AM
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24. Welcome to DU and ... |
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do you have something to do with http://www.publicbroadcasting.ca/considering your handle "pbca" ?
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Tue Dec-06-05 12:51 PM
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Tue Dec-06-05 06:14 AM
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22. Interesting viewpoint |
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I would have to agree with you to some degree,but not sure that america is neither an empire or superpower.
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Tue Dec-06-05 06:24 AM
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25. I would agree with him |
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we're just the muscle for multinational corporations.
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Mon Dec-05-05 03:39 PM
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18. Was a superpower, now an empire |
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the difference is how the power is used.
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Mon Dec-05-05 04:51 PM
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It isnt an either/or issue.
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Mon Dec-05-05 04:54 PM
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20. It's like a big bully teenager asshole |
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that acts like an empire but has NO concept of longevity or sustainability.
By 25, it'll be fat and bald, and by 30 it will be a useless drunk. Like the asshole football player who always took jokes too far, and then you run into him 15 years later and he is miserable and totally unsuccessful.
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Tue Dec-06-05 06:17 AM
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23. America is War Crime Nation |
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Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 06:19 AM by Solly Mack
I don't consider America to be anything else - and will only stop viewing America as a war crime nation if the Bush Regime and it's helpers are brought up on war crime charges.
If anyone wants to call her a War Crime Empire or War Crime Superpower, more power to them - just don't forget to add America's war crime status.
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