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Bill
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8/21/2003
10:16:03
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America is an Empire. We may not claim this officialy, or use that term publicly, but we are in essence an empire sustained by markets. An empire based on the role we play in the world. An empire based on how the world reacts to us. We have gathered the worlds attention around our approach to markets. Europe as united in reaction to our existence. The problem is that as a people we are an empire in denial. How do we go about accepting the empire?
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Benito Mussolini
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8/22/2003
06:14:31
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Like the British Empire, America is very much an Empire on which the sun does not sit. The difference is that America has built a military empire instead of an empire of occupation. America's is an empire intended to fight for (1) oil, and (2) liberal democracy.
A map of America's military empire may help to accept the reality.
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"Fascism, which was not afraid to call itself reactionary, does not hesitate to call itself illiberal and anti-liberal." - Benito Mussolini
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Will S.
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9/08/2003
07:59:22
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"How do we go about accepting the empire?"
Since America has generally chosen to express patriotism in reference to its liberal, republican political institutions rather than ethnicity (that was a factor in the past, but not as much as France or China, say; American patriotism has always been more connected to "freedom" than anything else), I don't think it's possible for most average Americans to accept the fact that America has become a de facto empire, let alone make it de jure. Such would constitute a rejection of the very ideals upon which the U.S. was founded, and thus would be viewed as alien and "unAmerican".
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