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Long Live U.S. Imperialism

The financial crisis may seem to spell the end of American military hegemony, but the world still needs a cop.

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  • Posted By: Moderate_Voice @ 06/20/2009 11:52:47 PM

    I liked this article. It provided a good breakdown of what we can expect in the future. I actually to believe that with the "rise of the rest" the world will never have a single superpower again. The power in the world will be more eveny distributed. Here is an article that deals with this issue also.

    http://rorabaughsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/neo-colonialism.html

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 11/21/2008 7:06:58 PM

    Observation?
    no,
    remarks?
    no,
    there is judgement,
    delivered after full hearing,
    prosecution failed to prove guilty,
    detainees,passing through imprisonment,
    in fabricated jails in Cuba,
    ''Release them fortwith''
    but they are still in prison,
    it mean court poder has been overlooked.


    Federal court,
    and thereafter district court,
    rightly come to the same conclusion,
    but the prosecution carried out no order,
    what the signal state department want to give the world,
    following imperialism.

  • Posted By: Bullfighter @ 11/15/2008 4:16:10 PM

    America policing the World when it can't even keep it's own borders free from illegal intrusion by a third world nation is really a pathetic sight. Maybe the US should ask Europe for a little help in return for WW1 and WW2 before things get out of hand!

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 11/15/2008 10:10:32 AM

    U.S.A.,
    regardless all,
    i have seen this great imperialis,
    by a different angle,
    that is the fair,free,impartial elections,
    regarding the presidency of the greatest democracy of the world.


    As my experience says,
    just after elections,
    the most part of the world screaming,
    rigging, rigging,rigging,
    and in resulting,agitation,objectons,allegations,and actions,based on revenge,are begun


    we have horrible example here in our country,
    when a dictator hanged a innocent man,
    who was a internationally recognised political leader.


    like that,vide the chapter of the african historu,
    every election creats turmoil,
    and the nation have to covered thereafter
    a painfull distance,
    leaders are ready to admitt eachothers victory.


    It can be easly argued,
    large number of people,
    has lost their lives,
    in the result of unacceptable,disputed vote.


    Greatest imperialims,
    and greatest democracy,
    has successfully proved its efficiency,
    by electing a blackman,
    it mean American belive in justice,
    in every feild of political life.


    Ultan Ahmed,Fsd,Pakistan.

    against the parties concerned.

  • Posted By: Holly Garfield @ 10/31/2008 4:19:21 PM

    The Military Channel on cable has a show on the 'Weapons that Changed the World' post WWII. The top weapon of the 10, by far, was the US fleet carrier. As the show says, when a US carrier shows up off your shore cooler heads prevail. When China was preparing missile tests near Taiwan the US sent two carriers down the strait, and China cancelled the missile tests. A single carrier has more military might than the combined forces of about 70% of the countries in the world. No other country has anything even close to the size of the US fleet carrier. Someone will pay, and the world will be a safer place.

    Saddam Hussein was the only Middle East leader actively involved in expanding his country's borders. Even Iran was staying at home. If the US and the coalition forces didn't take him out then other Middle East countries would have to build up their own military. If the US goes into Iraq then Iraq's neighbors don't have to build up their own defenses. They know that, and will accept their part of payment for the US military budget. They are probably very happy to let us do their dirty work for them, at least behind closed doors. But if any country there admitted that openly there would be he&& to pay.

    • Posted By: visitor @ 11/14/2008 8:11:37 AM

      One ship equivelent to the sum of 70% of all the countries military power, rubbish, back it up if you can with some evidence.

      Other countries will pay US's military defecit, no.. just never gonna happen.

    • Posted By: visitor @ 11/01/2008 8:18:56 AM

      BS, BS, and more BS...........

  • Posted By: SeaHabit49 @ 11/14/2008 12:10:31 AM

    I think the millions of innocent civilians around the world that have been maimed and slaughtered by U.S. "Policing" and the millions more whose lives have been made even more miserable than they were would probably disagree. U.S. Imperialism has been a disaster for the world and for most Americans, too.

  • Posted By: martialguy @ 11/09/2008 5:28:23 PM

    In the age of fierce global competition; young students in the US are lagging behind in in areas such as math and science; considering them...nerdy. Things like sports, musics, videogames are crushing on education. Innovation is dependent heavily on new immigrants; and that became a bottleneck due to the war on terror.
    Russia and China are competing with the US in arms sale. EU is competing in airplane sale. S Korea and China, ship building. Japan, Germany and S Korea, automobile sales (and they are winning). China and Germany are already world's two largest exporters.
    It is time to stop flexing muscles to go for that protein shake or steroid shot.

  • Posted By: MegaDeath @ 11/05/2008 8:21:28 AM

    I think that the U.S. should butt out of other countries business. We waste more money going to countries where we are not wanted. These countries that are in trouble should fight their own battles, if they want nuclear power, let them have it so that they can keep up with other countries who have it. If countries want our help, then we should have them pay us a fee before we send troops or supplies. Same goes for sending disaster aid, make them pay for supplies. We would save more money this way.

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 11/03/2008 12:38:59 AM

    What has given by the imperialism to the world?
    smeared the most part of world with human blood,


    what has given by the communism to the world?
    made man prisoner of strict laws,
    which unhuman in nature.

    Both must be rejected,need of the time to request intlectuals,
    enact a new system,
    based on new principles,
    fair principles for entire world.

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/02/2008 5:02:16 PM

    arah palin when asked about becoming vp responded

    "As for that VP talk all the time, I tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me, 'what is it exactly that the VP does every day......"

    After she had been the nominee for around 2 months she was asked again and this time said

    [T]hey???re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

    WRONG THE VP IS THERE TO STEP IN IF SOMTHING HAPPENS TO THE PRESIDENT ONLY THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POLICY AND THEY DONT RUN THE SENATE!!
    If she doenst know what the vice pres or presidant does why would we give her the job

    Mccain has around a 40 percent chance because of his age in not being able to

    complete his term picking palin was about as smart as picking any other mrs Alaska contestant.

    Its not just that we disagree with her answers in alot of cases she doesnt understand basic questions
    like what is the bush doctrine, or what do you read.
    These are not gotcha questions!!!
    One of advisors recently said not only was she unqualified but said mccain picked her after 1 interview of about a hour
    and that even at mcdonalds you get 3 interviews.
    Members of her own campaign called her a diva and a whack job.
    They would know better then anyone else right now.

    So mccain gambled and he lost big. He ended up with a girl that cant answer questions that most of the people reading this can answer.
    at the same time mccain could never read this blog because he cant use a computer at all.
    I mean his wife has 100 million dollars get him classes or something.

    Am i crazy or do we want a computer literate president and a vp who can answer a least basic questions.
    If you read the rest of the articles on this site you would think the world is about to end
    So if thats the case these are the last 2 people you want running anything.
    let send them packing.

    ELECT OBAMA BIDEN NOW

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/02/2008 5:02:07 PM

    arah palin when asked about becoming vp responded

    "As for that VP talk all the time, I tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me, 'what is it exactly that the VP does every day......"

    After she had been the nominee for around 2 months she was asked again and this time said

    [T]hey???re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

    WRONG THE VP IS THERE TO STEP IN IF SOMTHING HAPPENS TO THE PRESIDENT ONLY THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POLICY AND THEY DONT RUN THE SENATE!!
    If she doenst know what the vice pres or presidant does why would we give her the job

    Mccain has around a 40 percent chance because of his age in not being able to

    complete his term picking palin was about as smart as picking any other mrs Alaska contestant.

    Its not just that we disagree with her answers in alot of cases she doesnt understand basic questions
    like what is the bush doctrine, or what do you read.
    These are not gotcha questions!!!
    One of advisors recently said not only was she unqualified but said mccain picked her after 1 interview of about a hour
    and that even at mcdonalds you get 3 interviews.
    Members of her own campaign called her a diva and a whack job.
    They would know better then anyone else right now.

    So mccain gambled and he lost big. He ended up with a girl that cant answer questions that most of the people reading this can answer.
    at the same time mccain could never read this blog because he cant use a computer at all.
    I mean his wife has 100 million dollars get him classes or something.

    Am i crazy or do we want a computer literate president and a vp who can answer a least basic questions.
    If you read the rest of the articles on this site you would think the world is about to end
    So if thats the case these are the last 2 people you want running anything.
    let send them packing.

    ELECT OBAMA BIDEN NOW

  • Posted By: TheVigil @ 11/02/2008 10:19:58 AM

    I think the American "hegemony" of the last few decades will be remembered with a highly mixed record.

    The peace that's resulted has been a highly tense and fraught one, rife with American abuses and a U.S.-centric viewpoint.

    On the other hand, it has promoted peace in a lot of places that don't have a mutually-assured-destruction reason to have peace, and trade around the world has been improved...if there's anything that Americans really do respect to their core, it's trade and capitalism, and I do think that's been a boon to world prosperity and progress. Globalization comes with some

    I do think liberals have an unfortunate tendency to point at globalization and corruption and scream and fail to appreciate the good points of America. I think conservatives have an unfortunate tendency to point at liberals and scream and fail to appreciate the creativity and willingness of liberals to point out things that *are* abuses of American tradition and power. We all would benefit from an attempt to be more positive, I think.

    • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/02/2008 4:15:44 PM

      Africa-centric foreign policy under Obama. This is what NEWSWEAK is already getting us ready for in advance,hence Chris Dickeys paving the way of the next ''Good War''.[ye gods Dickey. You are more transparent than Saran Wrap and yet include yourself in this odd species of journalistic hacks who believe that they know more than us]. Imperialism -On-The-Cheap,Dickey,Power,Brzheninskis,and Bidens policies are to introduce American air and ground troops into Sub-Saharan Africa in order to garner human rights prestige. [For Dickey,the Congo. For Power and Biden,the Sudan].
      How this will eventually bring us into increasing conflict with Sudans benefactors,the Chinese,jihadist presence in the region,and the Congolese factions backed by Chinese arms is unknown.

      But it will be Imperialism nonetheless,and it will be under a Liberal imprimatur.

    • Posted By: TheVigil @ 11/02/2008 10:20:52 AM

      "Globalization comes with some bad and good points, but it's not the demon a lot of left-leaning people think it is." Sorry about that part.

  • Posted By: SamThornton @ 11/02/2008 10:29:29 AM

    With the exception of World War II -- which was itself arguably the result of our blundering into World War I -- I can't think of a single US intervention that has changed conditions for the better in the target country. Is this a record that argues for more of the same, or for rethinking what our role in the world should be?

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 11/02/2008 5:56:19 AM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He was the last to know somthing was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 11/02/2008 3:48:13 AM

    I find it odd that the Barack Obamas,Joe Bidens and even John McCains hearken back to the age of the Great Depression in order to make economic points.

    It would do well to remind those untutored in this period that the US was not an ''imperilaist power'',indeed,was strictly isolationist. What this got us in economic revival is unknown. What it gave to the totalitarians was incalculable.Rep. Hamilton Fish had just entered into the US House ,like his later counterpart the leftwinged Dennis Kucinch[D-Oh] with Bush,an article to impeach FDR for even thinking to assist the Chinese after the invasion by the Japanese in 1937.[Marco Polo Bridge]. Hitler,then in consolidation after his grab of the Sudetenland and greater Austria,observed that the American president was ''rendered ineffective by his own people''. No assistance to Spain,nor to Africa,nor to China in the face of fascist threat.
    FDR complained that ''I tried to lead and looked over my shoulder and there was no-one there''. Fully 85% of the American people demanded no further ''foreign adventures'',even after the USS PANAY was sunk by Japanese airstrikes while on Chinas Yangzee River in Dec.1937. The ideal was to turn inwards towards domestic economic revival.

    While the Japanese moved towards Pearl Harbor.

    ''Stillwell[Gen.Joseph] And The American Experience In China:1911-1946'' Tuchmann,Barbara,Harper and Row,1965.

  • Posted By: FREETHINKINGAMERICAN @ 11/02/2008 3:01:16 AM

    And of course, if America, rather than the UN, is going to be the world's policeman, who is going to police the policeman???
    Who is going to prevent America from policing the world purely according to its own interests???

    This is the fundamental problem - and objection - to American hegemony ; and the principal reason why it must end.

  • Posted By: FREETHINKINGAMERICAN @ 11/02/2008 2:41:06 AM

    NEWSWEEK SAYS :

    "Yet I don't see anyone around who's ready to take its place. The European Union? It can't even forge a common foreign policy, much less a strategy for regional security and defense. China? Many of its neighbors are unlikely to be enthusiastic. Russia? Give me a break."

    Have you forgotten about the UN? Surely that is whom we should look to?
    And if the U.S. were not constantly undermining the UN, for example by not paying its dues and by appointing the likes of John Bolton, would not the U.N. be the natural world's policeman?

    And of course, although you mention that the money for the 7th Fleet is raised through America putting itself in hock to the rest of the world, you do not examine the sustainability of this and the future implications of this. What happens if the world is not willing to finance American spending any longer or calls in its debts?

    So what is the annual defence budget of the US? About a trillion dollars? Can someone enlighten us?

    Chalmers Johnson reported in an article in AsiaTimes not too long ago that 600 billion was voted through by Congress for military spending without batting an eye-lid while they were agonising over 750 billion for the banking bailout (not that that was money well-spent either, since much of is reportedly being spent on banker's bonuses).

    And this is what a democracy ruled by the militaryindustrial complex is like?

    Not a word of question or complaint from any American; not a word of question or complaint from the Senate or from Congress; not a word of question or complaint from either of the two presidential candidates.

    No-one in America seems to remember or knows President Eisenhower's
    wise words of warning ( a warning I never tire of repeating) in his farewell speech to the American people in 1961:

    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. "

    How much, I wonder, has America spent on the militaryindustrial complex since 1945?
    And how much good, I wonder, has that done to the world?

    I wonder how much good all this money could have done to improve the lives, not only of Americans, but people all over the world, and how much bloodshed, suffering and death could have been avoided had it been spent on creative rather than destructive, causes?

    Ah well, the only one who will be joyful at reading this and similar reports on America's military spending is Osama Bin Laden, watching the American Empire over-reach itself militarily and spending its way militarily into bankruptcy...

  • Posted By: chokko @ 11/02/2008 12:40:42 AM

    Yes, when push comes to shove...it is still "viva la America" make no mistake, the world needs a policeman and at least for this centuray, I for one, cannot see anyone with in sight to replace the mighty USA. On the seemingly endless cost of running its mammoth Military Machine...it is time to rethink on how to finance it. Defence and Militarism should be a business. Get those nation which benefits for American military might to cough up. Yes, start paying! nd take no *** from the likes of the ungrateful Souh Koreans for example!

  • Posted By: Sultan Ahmed @ 11/02/2008 12:29:43 AM

    Here is mirror,
    see the real shap of U.S.A. imperialism,
    consiting of eight years,
    under the leadership of republican.

  • Posted By: pugs @ 11/01/2008 11:52:22 PM

    Hey check out this nice story from Kansas City Newspaper:
    http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2613

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