Let 100 apologists bloom

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Let 100 apologists bloom



Charles: Ah yes, imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism.



Ken Hanly wrote:
>
> Struggling to get a handle on U.S. foreign policy? For starters, try dusting
> off your Livy and boning up on the Second Punic War. Or dip into a good
> history of 19th-century Britain, paying close attention to those dazzling
> military campaigns in the Middle East - the Battle of Omdurman, say, or the
> Second Afghan War.
> .
> Today, America is no mere superpower or hegemon but a full-blown empire in
> the Roman and British sense. That, at any rate, is the consensus of some of
> the most notable U.S. commentators and scholars.
> .
> "People are now coming out of the closet on the word 'empire,'" said the
> conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. "The fact is no country has been
> as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the
> history of the world since the Roman Empire."
> .
> Americans are used to being told - typically by resentful foreigners - that
> they are imperialists. But lately some of the nation's own eminent thinkers
> are embracing the idea. More astonishing, they are using the term with
> approval. From the isolationist right to the imperialist-bashing left, a
> growing number of experts are issuing stirring paeans to American empire.
> .
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