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What if Americans Really Were Imperialists?
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| 5-18-06
| Joe Moody
Posted on 05/18/2006 9:08:06 AM PDT by guinness4strength
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To: guinness4strength
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:11:09 AM PDT
by
Havok
(I like meat, guns, and comic books. Am I a bad conservative?)
To: guinness4strength
And take up the White Man's Burden? Thank God Imperialism for economic gain is so against the grain of the American Democracy.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:12:40 AM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
To: Havok
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:14:21 AM PDT
by
TheZMan
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To: TheZMan
''White Man's Burden''-''Manifest Destiny''--''The Great White Fleet of 1906''-- We've had our periods of imperialism, benign imperialism to be sure, but imperialism nonetheless.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:20:50 AM PDT
by
middie
To: guinness4strength
This illusrates a good point. They scream imperialism, but as someone famous once stated, they keep using that word; I'm not sure they know what it means.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:20:54 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
To: guinness4strength
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:20:58 AM PDT
by
Thrusher
("...there is no peace without victory.")
To: TheZMan
poorly written, but the premise is good. We would be a fearsome nation if we turned to the darkside, like some many others have throughout history. I don't think we ever will.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:21:28 AM PDT
by
catbertz
To: catbertz
just curious, what is the basis for your comment about the writing style
To: guinness4strength
To: catbertz
Very well written, let's get dark on them, we're gettin' blamed for it anyway, always will.
Who are we to not give them what they want?
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:40:28 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: guinness4strength
A terrible idea...well, I might be brought around if I get to make the prank call. "Hi, Nads? It's yer buddy BtD. Do you got Prince Albert In A Can? Well, put this here H-bomb in there with him! Toodles..."
To: guinness4strength
"Do you have any words of encouragement for those in the world community?" asked a French journalist.
he he he That would be about the shape of it.
To: middie
''White Man's Burden''-''Manifest Destiny''--''The Great White Fleet of 1906''-- We've had our periods of imperialism, benign imperialism to be sure, but imperialism nonetheless.Calling our liberation of oppressed peoples "imperialism" is like the Feminazi's calling marital sex "rape". If it doesn't involve a hobnailed boot on a throat demanding tribute, it isn't imperialism.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:53:56 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(WWJBD? What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
To: guinness4strength
just curious, what is the basis for your comment about the writing style
Perhaps it's a personal taste in humor. The premise is fine, the satirical portion sounds clumsy. It works, but makes it's point in an overly cheesy fashion.
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posted on
05/18/2006 9:57:46 AM PDT
by
catbertz
To: guinness4strength
Of course NoKo and Iran still would exist. They'd be the 51st and 52d states.
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posted on
05/18/2006 10:04:28 AM PDT
by
pogo101
To: middie
No doubt. We experimented with Imperialism but that trend was falling out of favor in the world.
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posted on
05/18/2006 10:04:51 AM PDT
by
TechnicalEcstacy
(Ann Coulter - want to touch the heiny - aaoowwwooo!)
To: catbertz
that's a fair critique, perhaps the author added extra cheese and obnoxiousness to the piece as those are other American traits foreigners despise
To: TeenagedConservative
OMG YES THIS ROCKS!
Totally. I love that stuff.
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posted on
05/18/2006 10:06:29 AM PDT
by
TechnicalEcstacy
(Ann Coulter - want to touch the heiny - aaoowwwooo!)
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