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It worked just fine for the USA for quite some time. It certainly works better than trying to be the worlds policeman."Friends with all allies with none." Thomas Jefferson
Funny thing - Western Europeans are so fond of saying that the US has a center-right party and an extreme-right party, that I get pretty surprised sometimes when Central and Eastern Europeans speak up. It's like you guys aren't all one person who thinks exactly alike.
Also, try that in the age of ballistic missiles and nukes and see how it goes.
So, it only "worked" and was a reality as long as there was no credible threat to US.In mid thirties it was plentifully clear in U.S. elite that that age is over. See various fleet/air force programs designed to deal with the new possible threats.
That 911 thing is a good argument for intervention.
5. Assimilation/integration is failing even with the previous, slow immigration, multiculturalism is a failure.
It works just fine actually.
Certainly better than empire building. Empires always come at the expense of the native countries then end up with the country falling apart.
What has the Pax Americana actually gained for average Americans?
Endless wars and higher taxes?
The simple fact is we cant afford our empire anymore.
What threat might that be? No power on earth could've been a credible threat to continental US even then.Right up to the start of WW2 the whole country was solidly pro isolationist it took a president months away from getting impeached and blatantly trying to provoke both Germany and Japan to get us in that war.Neither power was even close to a match to the USA.
If it weren't for our Pro Israel policies we wouldn't have enemies in the middle east.
Of course its a failure its why empires fail in the first place. Sooner or later the state looses the power to police the disparate peoples and then the whole thing comes apart.
After Super Tuesday, Bernie Sanders says he’s taking the fight to every stateLiz Goodwin Senior National Affairs Reporter March 01, 2016BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bernie Sanders may be facing tough delegate math against his rival Hillary Clinton, but the progressive candidate told a crowd of his strongest supporters that he would fight for the nomination in every state.“At the end of tonight, 15 states will have voted. Thirty-five states remain,” Sanders told a Vermont crowd of thousands. “Let me assure you that we are going to take our fight for economic justice, for social justice, for environmental sanity, for a world of peace to every one of those states.”The Vermont senator assured his supporters that he will still pick up delegates in states he loses on Super Tuesday.“This is not a general election, it’s not winner-take-all. If you get 52 percent or 48 percent, you end up with roughly the same amount of delegates,” he said.The senator is right that he is picking up delegates even in states he loses, but Super Tuesday has seriously dented his chances of becoming the Democratic nominee. Though he did better than some expected — winning his home state of Vermont in a landslide, plus Oklahoma, Colorado and Minnesota — Sanders was falling short of making up for Clinton’s very strong showing in the South, where she won six states, and in delegate-rich Massachusetts. (Superdelegates, who are chosen by the party and not allocated based on the popular vote, also overwhelmingly support Clinton.) On this course, Sanders is likely to find himself in a delegate hole he cannot dig out of.But this pessimism has not reached Vermont, the campaign or the Sanders supporters who contributed $42 million to his campaign last month, outdoing Clinton’s fundraising machine. The hometown crowd gave Sanders a rock star’s reception, cheering for a full minute when he arrived on stage with his wife, Jane. Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and other campaign surrogates introduced Sanders as the “next president of the United States” to the cheering crowd.Sanders appears to have the money and the will to go all the way. And he doesn’t have to worry about big-time donors deciding it’s time for him to pull the plug if he can’t catch up with Clinton.“We think we’re going to have the resources to go all the way,” Sanders’ senior adviser, Tad Devine, said. “In the past, campaigns ended because the bundlers said, ‘We aren’t going to bundle anymore.’ We don’t have any bundlers. The people who are investing in this campaign are doing so not because it’s a smart money calculation, but because they believe in Bernie Sanders.”Devine said the campaign is looking forward to upcoming races in Kansas, Nebraska, Maine, Louisiana and Michigan. “We’re going to compete and win in as many states as possible,” he said.Devine dismissed the possibility that Sanders supporters will lose some of their enthusiasm as they see their candidate’s chances dim.“You know, I think our supporters are enthusiastic about Bernie and his message, not enthusiastic about his delegate totals,” he said.Sanders has from the beginning been a candidate of ideas, when he entered the race nearly a year ago with almost zero name recognition to take on a candidate most Democrats saw as inevitable. His surprising popularity pushed Clinton to the left on many issues, from the Keystone Pipeline to economic inequality, and has changed the race forever. The money that keeps pouring into this campaign means he can continue to deliver this message, even if he doesn’t have a shot at the nomination.“What I have said is that this campaign is not just about electing a president, it is about making a political revolution,” Sanders said at his victory rally.One thing the campaign says won’t happen, no matter the outcome? Sharper attacks on Clinton.“I’ve worked with Bernie for 20 years. We’ve never run a negative ad, and I predict we never will,” Devine said.
I'm seeing that I'm far from the only one really put out with Mr. Christie for that stupid endorsement. He's catching some serious, SERIOUS bounce-back. There is not enough justice in the world, but it's not fallen to zero quite yet.
I've worked -briefly, thank god- in a lot of factories, and I've been migrant labor for several years. You are welcome to guess what radicalized me on labor issues. (Protip: me saying the Bosses want to make us all slaves may have been based on having been treated like one. A lot.)The Bossmen Love Free Trade - and it's a lot more complicated than that rising tide argument to people and regions out of work while the economy adjusts. I don't know what the best answer is, but it isn't simple.
QuoteU.S. is not an empire.Yes it is. Or is American imperialism just my imagination.Your taxes are low, relative to world, both relative to individual earnings and relative to GDP:
U.S. is not an empire.
There were no empires mentioned in that quote.
I agree that that answer is very simple.
