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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12802 Post contents: The USofA can be seen as Lennie Small in John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". Lennie Small is a strong, mentally retarded man that dreams of a simple luxury: petting rabbits. His undoing is his strength, mental retardation, and his pursuit of luxury: he kills a woman by petting her, too hard, of course. Lennie's friend, the diminutive, yet cunning and caring George Milton shoots him in the back of the head to save him from a more gruesome death at the hands of a lynch mob, coming after him for the accidental killing of the woman he was petting. The USofA is a strong, ignorant country that dreams of a simple luxury: bringing happiness to the world. It's undoing is it's strength, it's ignorance, and it's pursuit of luxury: it destroys civilization after civilization by trying to bring it happiness. Question: who plays the roll of George Milton? Some group of American people themselves, some foreign country (France?), or some other force that brings down this Revolution we call the USofA? Sent at: 2009 01 07