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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12815 Post contents: I think it's important to distinguish between expansion of the American state, with conquest and displacement/genocide of other peoples - the 19th c American paradigm -vs ruling over other peoples supposedly for their own benefit, the Leftist and neocon paradigm. The first, in its American form, is not imperialism, any more than the Saxon conquest of Roman Britain was imperialism. The second is a form of imperialism - Leftist in origin, as Gottfried points out. This imperialism is what America is what America's leadership class are remarkably bad at, due to their complete lack of empathy with the subject peoples. In their ability to turn potentially conciliable subject peoples against them, only the Nazis come close. The best bet for America would be retreat from empire; this would save lots of money, restore America's international standing, and allow resources to be directed towards the country's internal problems. The big risk though would be the imperial backwash that has done for Britain and France, the millions of Muslim immigrants from former colonies - in this case, its the millions of Iraqi 'refugees' that the neocons and Left will seek to foist on a retrenching America. Sent at: 2009 01 07