The American method of empire is precisely the opposite. Rather than extracting wealth and raw materials out of its conquered territories, the United States pours its own wealth and the lives of its citizens into the rebuilding of the defeated. In Iraq, for example, the United States has spent billions of dollars constructing and defending a new country, one that is governed by its own people, not the American people. The same is true in Afghanistan, as well as South Korea, Germany, and Japan. If Americans have an empire (and everyone says that we do), then we certainly have a strange way of building it. It entails conquering enemies, picking them up, dusting them off, and then turning them ...

The American method of empire is precisely the opposite. Rather than extracting wealth and raw materials out of its conquered territories, the United States pours its own wealth and the lives of its citizens into the rebuilding of the defeated. In Iraq, for example, the United States has spent billions of dollars constructing and defending a new country, one that is governed by its own people, not the American people. The same is true in Afghanistan, as well as South Korea, Germany, and Japan. If Americans have an empire (and everyone says that we do), then we certainly have a strange way of building it. It entails conquering enemies, picking them up, dusting them off, and then turning them into new friends. Americans do this not because it is a particularly efficient or clever way to build world hegemony. It is not. They do it because Americans sincerely do not want hegemony. They do not want an empire. They want peaceful friends.

Rather than extracting wealth and raw materials out of its conquered territories, the United States pours its own wealth and the lives of its citizens into the rebuilding of the defeated.

The people of Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Panama, the Northern Marianas, the Marshall Islands, and the Philippines would beg to differ. Native Americans are particularly laughing their asses off right now.

Americans sincerely do not want hegemony. They do not want an empire.

Hmm, most of Bush's Administration were part of a little think tank called Project for the New American Century. What does [url=http://www.informationclearingh...

Rather than extracting wealth and raw materials out of its conquered territories, the United States pours its own wealth and the lives of its citizens into the rebuilding of the defeated.

The people of Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Panama, the Northern Marianas, the Marshall Islands, and the Philippines would beg to differ. Native Americans are particularly laughing their asses off right now.

Americans sincerely do not want hegemony. They do not want an empire.

Hmm, most of Bush's Administration were part of a little think tank called Project for the New American Century. What does PNAC want?

The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.

Wow, a lot of shadows. Are you saying that those people aren't better off now. I am from american indian ancestry, namely Hopi. My wife is native alaskan, Athabaskan. I can tell you things are much better off. Alaskans and Hawaiians both voted to be a part of the United States. There were a lot of indians casting votes.

Panama is a sovereign state. A state that we risked blood and treasure to keep from slipping further away from its people and into the hands of a dictator.

oh and here is another view of the now as far as I can tell, because there seem to
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., co-founded...

Wow, a lot of shadows. Are you saying that those people aren't better off now. I am from american indian ancestry, namely Hopi. My wife is native alaskan, Athabaskan. I can tell you things are much better off. Alaskans and Hawaiians both voted to be a part of the United States. There were a lot of indians casting votes.

Panama is a sovereign state. A state that we risked blood and treasure to keep from slipping further away from its people and into the hands of a dictator.

oh and here is another view of the now as far as I can tell, because there seem to
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., co-founded in early 1997 as "a non-profit educational organization" by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The PNAC's stated goal is "to promote American global leadership."Fundamental to the PNAC are the views that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."[2] It has exerted strong influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S President George W. Bush and strongly affected the George Bush administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.

A slightly different tone methinks.