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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12803 Post contents: Funny, for a moment you seemed to talk about "General MacArthur even managing to legalize abortion in the 1949 law code" as if it were some kind of accomplishment. Of course, it has done nothing but destroy lives and destroy the moral standing of a people, just as abortion does everywhere it is legal. MacArthur hated the Japanese with a burning passion, and would gladly have killed every last one of them if he could. Instead he left them to die of purposelessness, moral vacuum, and self-loathing. And this is precisely what they are doing. It would have been more merciful simply to vaporize them. American hatred of foreigners, which is intense, is expressed strangely. It is expressed not in terms of tribe or race. Instead, America, believing itself, its culture, and its political system to be the finest thing ever created and the self-evident savior of humanity, accepts all foreigners who wish to fall in slavish imitation of it, and labels all foreigners who wish to keep their own cultures, religions, and political systems to any degree greater than a kitschey show ("We'll let them keep sushi and not freak out when they wear kimonos on special occasions") as pure evil. The man who put a bullet through Benazir Bhutto's heart this week did so because he did not wish his country to become Connecticut with curry. He did so because he could see the visage of MacArthur shoving abortion down the throats of the Japanese, and laughing from Hell as they slowly go extinct. He did so because the idea of raising a daughter - the next generation of his country's women (and women re the moral backbone of any society) - who would dress, talk, and act like Lindsay Lohan was enough that he'd rather die. And so he did. And so did Benazir Bhutto. And so will many more Americans and Brits and Australians and Pakistanis and Iraqis and Afghans. In the end, Bush, Cheney, and Petraeus will either be Truman and MacArthur - cramming degeneracy down the throats of a ruined people in order to slowly kill it from the inside - or will be Gorbachev and Varennikov, in which case we will leave (and likely collapse soon thereafter). Wanna take bets on which is more likely? Empire is not contrary to American principles. But American principles are some pretty nasty stuff. Sent at: 2009 01 07