Don't ask mepolitics is beyond my feeble brain. Mainly because I am aware I don't know the half of it. Knocking the USA is fashionable now. 100 years ago I'd have said go for Austria-Hungary. 200 years ago I'd have said the French. 300 years ago, Russia or Spain. 400 years ago probably the French again. If we go back further, the vikings, Rome, Ghengis Khan, Alexander the Great, Vlad the Implaler, the Vandals, the Goths, Trojans, Spartans, Gauls, Normans, Huns, Thuggees, Shoalins, Assasins, Greeks, Persians, Aztecs, Egyptians and the French...
My point being, there has ALWAYS been an imperialistic power running most of the world. Get used to it. The USA is better than most of the ones listed above.
(My point being, there has ALWAYS been an imperialistic power running most of the world. Get used to it. The USA is better than most of the ones listed above.
TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Sun 11 Sep 2011, 20:36,
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You know more than you let onI wouldn't say knocking the USA is "fashionable", they just happen to be the current big kids in the playground. Power and abuse of power has always been correlated, so naturally as the most powerful nation on the planet, they're guilty of the most offences.
I'm not sure what yard stick you'd use either to compare Washington's policies to previous empires, but it's also neither here-nor-there. We can't judge the past by present standards, nor vice-versa.
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Sun 11 Sep 2011, 21:49,
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I'm not sure what yard stick you'd use either to compare Washington's policies to previous empires, but it's also neither here-nor-there. We can't judge the past by present standards, nor vice-versa.