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chevydog1 year, 2 months ago
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Interesting article.
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In one sense we've ceased our empire building. The former Spanish states and one French one have been part of the country for a while. Alaska and Hawaii are now states. We more or less voluntarily relinquished Cuba and the Phillipines.
One could make cases that WWI and WWII were for strategic reasons; the cases for Korea and the 1st Iraq conflict are murkier, but could also be viewed that way. Strategic reasoning was sometimes used to try to justify Vietnam; but few people, then or now, believed it. The stuation for the current Iraq conflict is IMHO strange-- the political opposition frequently alleges that it was based on strategic justificattion; but the Administration denies it, at least sometimes. Strange indeed.
The situation in Iraq has badly damaged the US. IMHO even if a stable democratic government is established there, which I am skeptical of, the damage could take generations to heal.
One thing in the article I found strange. The writer makes the statement that the two main political parties in the US are relatively close. I'm not very familiar with politics elsewhere. But the article's assertion implies that many have a less broad political spectrum than we do. I'm not sure I believe that.
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