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Originally posted by FrayAdjacent911
I think anyone that regards the US' actions as 'imperial' loses all credibility in my book.
We invaded North Africa, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany... etc etc... But we didn't keep them, did we? An empire would have.
I don't forsee Iraq becoming the 51st state.
I guess I'm glad I'm more of a Libertarian Centrist that just leans a little to the right. Bob had it right... all extremists are crazy!
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You're thinking is incorrect. Maintaining control over an area doesn't require one to claim it as one's own country. The Roman's did the same routinely during their centuries of empire.
US government foreign policy is pure imperialism.