Democracy or Empire?

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> The opening sentence (recalled from memory) of a book review (I
> forget the book) in the *Guardian* (NY) back in the late '60s:
>
> "Born in the blood of Indians, built on the bones of slaves,
> fattened on the riches of the entire globe, the American Experiment
> should be declared a failure and destroyed to make room for
> humanity."
>
> Carrol
>
> P.S. Democracy of one sort or another, limited in one way or another,
> has always been the most efficient system of imperial rule.
> Democracy *and* Empire.

I think that the reason why a limited democracy helps build &
maintain an empire is that the rulers can't afford to fight on two
fronts, domestic & foreign, at the same time, as Machiavelli reminds
us.  Hence the usefulness of the Democratic Party & liberal
internationalism in America....

Yoshie