RE: American Imperialism?

From: Rick Strongitharm (xllb@home.com)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 14:35:43 MST


But me looooove being close nieghboUr of imperialist!

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Subject: Re: American Imperialism?

In a message dated 03/17/2000 10:54:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
neptune@mars.superlink.net writes:

> This makes it sound like that phase is over. America appears to be very
> imperialist of late... I gather it depends on how one defines
imperialism.
> Surely, controlling other nations' internal politics is one indicator.
If
> so, then in the past ten years, America has interfered in Somalia, Haiti,
> Bosnia, and Serbia. It's used military intervention in all four cases
> mentioned. This is aside from the various and often routine bombings of
> other nations -- Iraq, the Sudan, Afghanistan.
>
> Maybe there's some dividing line I'm missing here.
>
> Daniel Ust
> http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
>
But me looooove being imperialist!



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