Do you think the United States was "imperialist ?"?
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First, Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial conquest or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. The US has never been a acquisition nation.\n\nNow, there has been a trend to criticize imperialism not at an economic or political level, but at a simply cultural level, particularly the widespread global influence of American culture. We have a great deal of influence on all cultures and our culture is slowly changing the world. \n\nIt comes down to how you view it.
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Nope. It's still the same way it was before we invaded. Warlords run most of the country under their own laws, and the only thing that's pro-Western is the government in the capital. Sorry.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/history-of-united-states-overseas-expansion\nor\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism_in_Asia
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Now, dont everybody jump on me at once, but i say yes.  I think we stick our noses where they dont belong, adn if their ways or customs dont agree with us, we find a way to make them look like a bad guy.  So basically, i think we should leave the other countries alone and concentrate more on domestic issues for awhile.\n\nAnd as far the answere below me goes....We have been bombed roughly 3 times in our entire existance by foreigners. So we are not being bombed all over the place.  What does Osama Bin Laden have to do Iraq and their freedom? If they want our help and they asked for it, then by all means i support it, but when theye didnt ask and we take it into our own hands, it means mind your business.  Maybe if your party wasnt so concerned trying to colonize the non western world, you would be able to see that.
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Travis, forgive me if you're right in principle you're may not be right in the form nor in the general reasoning.\n\nAccording to your thought you own that country because you went there, colonized it with the force, made it yours and now you're there and rule. \nIt's right for that reason that, just like you did, anyone else could go there, kick your butt and settle a brand new type of civilization (It will happen eventually but i think you'll be too old or dead to see it happening). \n\nBut that is not the point!\nThe point is simply that the reasoning WE ARE ALL IMMIGRANTS greatly sucks in general for the following reason.\n- It's true the US are a nation of immigrants. But it is also true that, leaving natives aside, it was originally colonized by WHITE CAUCASIANS OF ENGLISH ORIGINS. Therefore, if US are what they are in terms of economy, living standards, etc, that is MAINLY DUE to the organization inprint provided by those ENGLISH WHITE CAUCASIANS. No one is saying that African slaves or Chinese didn't do their part. But we are are not talking about the workers but rather about the neural system that shaped the US as they are today. That was due to WHITE CAUCASIAN ENGLISH PEOPLE (It's not a case if UK is still a power to reckon with economically, while the rest of Europe is going down). That measn that allowing too many illegals or even legals of any nation whose traditions and habits are very different from yours, could or would (longterm) an uneven balancing of the racial groups. In short one new racial/religious group could begin to gain power and exert more pressure to dominate. The thing appears ridiculous untill the amount of WHITE CAUCASIANS is still majority (and strenghtened by the amount of immigrates who share your own values) but it's not said that will always be so, if the US keep allowing in "PIGS AND DOGS" just to show up how democratic they are (Even though after they let in all those people have to control some 200 million telephones to be sure no one is misbehaving). \nOne thing the US and Europe as well should begin to think about, in the light of the recent events is:\n\n1) Stopping immigration flows; especially those relating to some specific ethnic or religious groups.\n2) Begin to expel all illegals, no matter what and regardless of any diplomatic issue \n3) Ensure the racial balance will always be on the white caucasian with afros (whom in good and bad seem to be those who better adapted to the real US values)\n\nSee, i am not an American citizen; I am an Italian who lives in Italy but i see my country infested with immigrants who kill, scrounge, steal jobs, ask for rights they would never give us in their countries, try to force us to ply to their wills (Muslims in particular), organize in gangs (Latinos in general), rape whole families, rob and kill people with a smile and then laugh (Romanians, Albanians), kidnap kids, steal and scrounge off the government (ROM Gipsies). And all this happens despite our unemployment rate ranges between 8 and 50% in some areas, which should let you understand we DO NOT NEED IMMIGRATES in Italy. I think you don't need many of them in the US either as in most cases all what they do is working for 1/10 of what any american would do, killing the job market.\nWhat a pity your reasoning was based on FORCE, while the actual problem is much more complex. But i do see your point and your rage (Which is shared by many others around the world)
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No.  It is an outdated and flawed system that is representative of qualities similar to that of the British empire in which our forefathers fought so desperately to get away from.  We are becoming the United Empire of America....it is a very scary time in our history.  I think politics have outgrown the fair representation of Americans.
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Yes.  The Project for a New American Century (similar to Nazi Germany's Reich of a Thousand Years) is a poorly conceived "plan" to ensure that the US remains a "superpower" and that all other nations are *prevented* from becoming "superpowers", both through economic and military force.  \n\nThe Nazis, however, overextended themselves by starting two wars at once (under false pretenses) and isolating themselves politically, aligning themselves with other repressive regimes, eliminating individual freedoms, imprisoning and murdering a minority ethnic group within its borders (and entering others' nations to capture such people).  The US wouldn't make those same mistakes, would it?\n\nFor anyone who is well informed (ie. they don't watch FOX or CNN but do read the independent media) this is not news, nor are the war crimes such as in Falujjah.
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Do you mean other than founding the USA??
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We think we won the war not because we won it alone (although I would say the USSR has a much bigger claim on being a deciding factor than the UK) because you were losing alone, and we stepped in and helped turn the tide.  You were holding your own and preventing an invasion on the UK, but losing ground in the Pacific and couldn’t hold out forever in the UK proper, either.  The US stepped in, and was the help you needed to win on the Western European front.  The USSR has a stronger claim as well because it fought a vicious war with levels of self-sacrifice that the UK never even close to matched (although this isn’t to attack the UK – it is a good thing for the people there that they weren’t invaded and didn’t have any Stalingrads or Leningrad sieges), which is why they get more credit as well.  The US also feels like it deserves a thank you because it wasn’t invaded by the Nazis and of its geographic location meant that it probably could have held out indefinitely – unlike the UK, it had a choice about entering the war, but did so anyway, at a great cost in lives and money.  In the Pacific, the US provided more troops and infrastructure than did the UK (again, not because the UK was lazy or somehow worse at fighting, but because they had less men, less money and less production capacity as well as more pressing threats to the UK itself, and were stretched as far as it could be), and afterwards returned much of the area it freed to the UK.  We also were responsbile for the reconstruction and reformation of Japan.  The British helped there, true, but they had to work on reconstructing their own lands (much of which was funded by the US’s Marshall Plan), so the again the bulk of the effort was the US’s.  So we see it as we earned a decent share of the credit there too.\n\nIf anything, i woudl argue that the USSR deserves mroe credit - for positical reasons their contributions were downplayed by the West during the Cold War. I wouldn't give Canada too much credit fo rhelping form day one - their contributions were worthy, but they had no choice in helping; the Kig of England was their head of state. If England was bombed, they had to get involved.  The US only had to get invovled if to help the other states (it could have left Hawaii and the other Pacific holdings as the Japanese thought it would and continued peacefully as the continental US plus Alaska for a long time).\n\nPS Why are you so angry about htis?  Did you fight in WWII and feel you aren't getting your fair share of the redit?  are you generally bitter that yours is not the wealthiest adn msot powerful country?  If you are Canadian - be grateful for this.  You spend minimal amounts on your military because you know that the US woul dnever allow Canada to be invaded.  You then spend your money on social programs such as national health and inexpensive univeristy education.
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They eventually spread themselves to thin. There is only so much that one can rule, and they tried to legislate their morality on the people that they conquered. There was also much graft and corruption in their government.  Sound familiar well it is we have people in Washington right now that are doing the same thing. So is the end of the American empire as we know it?
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What?  You mean they didn't?  Everything I own seems to point to them having won the war.  Maybe if they hadn't everything cheaply made in the 70's would have said, "Made in the USA" on it, then we would have created better work habits and built business world wide until we dominated the world economy.
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"Imperialism"...That's the best one word explanation I can give you.  The US has become the predominant imperialist power in the world in the past 50 years.  Plutocrats in Washington have supported a menagerie of thugs, death squads, and dictators to project American power and influence around the world, and to make it safer for American corporations to exact tribute from the third world.  Suharto was propped up so as to make Indonesia yet another neo-colonial client-state, regardless of the sort of ugly consequences that came as a result (take the invasion of East Timor as one possible consequence of US interference in Indonesian internal affairs).
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If you were to take a survey, probably yes. As one of the largest and most prosperous nations in the world the U.S.A. can easily become the target of people who view it as "large and evil" in a sort of David and Goliath fashion.\n\nMore recently President Bush's poor foreign relations and diplomacy have caused even former allies to have negative feelings about the U.S.A. \n\nSo, if you were to do a worldwide survey, you would probably find that the U.S.A. is the country with the most visible presence, and thus one of the most hated.
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No it is not a new form of imperialism.  Free markets themselves are just that--an economic system.  The imperialism part occurs when things are forced upon groups that are not interested in them.  So free markets are "value free" in and of themselves.  It's when a nation forces its values on another that becomes imperialistic.
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Just Iran's affairs? Simple answer: that's what imperialists do.
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Nope; the planners of the attack were firmly convinced that it would strike a crippling blow against their eventual rival in the Pacific, forcing the U.S. to make more favorable arrangements to split spheres of influence in the Pacific Rim.\n\nThe Japanese Empire was shamelessly and eagerly imperialist; they wanted everything in Asia subservient to them.  They saw the U.S.A. as the only serious obstacle to that hegemony, since the English, French, and Dutch were tied up in World War.
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The American people have never been thrilled with the long-term concept of empire.\n\nThe neocons will burn in hell.