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Entry: America: An Empire? Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/america_an_empire#12882 Post contents: Regardless of the intentions of neoliberals and neocons, Americans do not have the willpower to maintain an empire. Reviewing Pat Buchanan's new book, Day of Reckoning, Chilton Williamson Jr. writes in the newest issue of Middle American News (Jan. 2008): "...Americans, who for better than two centuries have been pleased to think of their nation as God's country, have lacked nevertheless the haughty self-confidence and sense of racial, cultural and class superiority that allowed the European nation-states (Great Britain especially) to succeed at creating and managing their empires from early modern times until 1945. And nowadays, they lack it more than ever. What the would-be masters of American empire fail to comprehend is that their multicultural agenda works to undermine the cultural self-confidence that their imperial agenda requires for its successful realization. As a substitute, they offer capitalistic-democratism that is supposed to explain and justify American imperialism while giving giving the American people a new ideological confidence to replace their old discredited cultural assurance. But democratism is a poor substitute. Indeed, it is no substitute at all." Sent at: 2009 01 07