I never read Zinn’s book.
What word would you use to describe the things we’ve done in placing our military in more than 100 countries? And how would you describe Thomas Jefferson for his advice? And John Adams? And most of The Founders or were they Marxists also, as you apply the term. ?
You have absorbed Howard Zinn’s thinking my osmosis. You use Marxist language quite naturally, though you don’t know where or how you got it.
1.Our military forces are in those countries by the express invitation of those countries. Many of them are allies by treaty.
2. Thomas Jefferson was pro-Jacobin.
3. John Adams and the Federalists built a navy capable of projecting American power on the other side of the world. You are against this.
4. You are the one who applies the word “imperialist” to America, not me. Just tell me one thing - why do you accept and amplify the Marxist critique of American foreign policy by using the Marxist phrase “American imperialism”? When you use the enemy’s language, you implicitly accept their arguments.