Re:The American “Empire” Reconsidered
by skybrian on Monday February 12, 2018 @02:27PM
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I would question why the Mexican war and westward expansion, and Alaska and Hawaii don't count as empire-building. They are states now, but not at the time.
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Re:The American “Empire” Reconsidered
by PricelessValue on Monday February 12, 2018 @04:21PM
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Because empire is what the british or europeans do. We were born out of freeing ourselves from an evil empire. So since birth, empire had negative connotations. To say we are an empire means we are just as evil as the british empire or the french empire or the spanish empire. But we are the beacon of freedom, liberty and democracy. So we can't be an empire...
Every nation lies to itself.