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To: radicalamericannationalist
It is one factor only. And if being a "superpower" is important, please explain why.

Enough power to defend the rights of the citizens is what is required.

"Freedom is not a means to an end, it is the end."

123 posted on 10/04/2004 9:15:17 AM PDT by Protagoras (When your circus has a big tent, you can fit a lot of clowns inside)
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To: Protagoras
If you don't understand the security value of being a superpower, there is no point talking to you.
136 posted on 10/04/2004 12:38:44 PM PDT by radicalamericannationalist (Kurtz had the right answer but the wrong location.)
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To: Protagoras
"And if being a "superpower" is important, please explain why."

I would submit that our being a superpower is the result of our free market (which, IMO, is analagous to free trade) rather than the result of necessity.

However, now that the US is the world's wealthiest nation, super power is probably a necessity, if only for self defense.

141 posted on 10/04/2004 12:55:56 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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