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Re: US EMpire Better than Alternative - Huh?

Our enemies do better: Japan, Germany, Vietnam.

Not the powerful Grenada, however.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 05:39:24PM -0500, ravi wrote:
> Charles already pointed out that we are the empire -- there is no
> void. The other option is to take Chomsky's argument: look at the data
> on the places we have intervened in:
>
> * how have they fared after our intervention ("they" here broken down
> by region, people/culture, etc)
>
> * how has our behaviour matched our rhetoric and the principles
> underlying that rhetoric (that these students probably subscribe to).
>
>        --ravi

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