"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire;
and where they make a desert, they call it peace."
-Calgacus

Empire?

The United States is the most powerful nation in the world and it
often acts unilaterally, but is it an Empire? Though some insist that
"empire" means only direct rule over large-scale conquered territory...

Russia and Canada are also imperial and very big.

uri wrote:

Care to elaborate on Canada? Under Republicans the US functions a lot
like the Roman Empire. Noam Chomsky has described US imperialism as a an
extension of German NAZI ambitions during WW 2.

On Oct 22, 6:47 am, uri bezeqint.net> wrote:

America's Empire of Bases
Since the birth of our nation, America's Army has served the United
States ... Deployed or stationed in over 100 countries in 1997....
America is shaping the International Environment by military force.
Our installations abroad bring hugh profits to civilian industries,

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our
country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an
artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an
incessant propaganda of fear."

-General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951

"War is the health of the state."
-Randolph Bourne, The State

Small wars are good for politicians and businessmen.

by Chalmers Johnson

Raymond aol.com> wrote in news:1193054658.307915.147360
@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com:

Thanks. Dated but still timely piece. I've shared it around my community
of friends and acquaintences. This is what our "tax dollars" go for instead
of improving the lives of the people paying them. Reminds me of every
other "empire" that has collapsed trying to do the very same thing.

On Oct 22, 3:33 am, Raymond aol.com> wrote:

People didn't start making robots, because Washington appeared to
be all that imperial.

And they definetly did not develop GPS
because the idiot US Air Force appeared to be invincible.

In article <1193038392.037952.94180@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
Raymond aol.com> wrote:

All 'golden arches' lead to the new Rome... aka New York or Warshington.

Coffee in Madrid wrote:

Seattle and SoCal

Decadence approaching Rome itself, or even exceeding it.

On Oct 22, 7:03 pm, Defendario netscape.com> wrote:

"All war is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a
war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and
horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war
usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for
the war is the only possible choice they can make.

"In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult
to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you
conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody...

In article <1193038392.037952.94180@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
Raymond aol.com> wrote:

No.

She can't even get up the gumption to annex Puerto Rico, for crying out
loud.

--
NeoLibertarian

"The government's view of the economy could be summed
up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it
keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,
subsidize it."
---Ronald Reagan