On 24 Sep 2004 15:36:34 GMT, ost (Chris Mark) wrote:

US goals since Wilson have been aimed at establishing a peaceful,
prosperous, democratic world, not at conquest and domination.

Good post, Chris. You almost convinced me!

I certainly agree that we have not been bent on conquest for a hundred
years. Domination is something else, however. If you weren't American,
you could even argue that the U.S. doesn't have to conquer because we
can dominate without conquest. (Indeed, lots of Americans argue that
way It's merely that the British/French/Belgian/Japanese model of
colonialism doesn't work any longer, if indeed it ever worked; we have
simply carried colonialism to a new level.

("Not that there's anything wrong with that," as Seinfeld would say.)

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