[Pazuzu]

I see it differently...America *thinks* it's imperialistic, but it's not. We go to war, then leave the spoils for the losers. We invade a country, then don't take the land as our own. We'd rather overpopulate our spot than expand our borders, and we'd rather make trade alliances with neighboring countries than simply take their land and it's resources.

If we're going to have an imperialistic mindset, then we need to be imperialistic in action as well, or it weakens us. If we're going to be global diplomats, then we need to stop making stunted, weak pseudo-imperialistic moves in other countries.