[Tolik]

Jonah Goldberg:

...Successful “hyperpowers” tend to be more tolerant and inclusive than their competitors. Despite its flaws, Britain was the first truly liberal empire. America has picked up where the British left off. Whatever sway the U.S. holds over far-flung reaches of the globe is derived from the fact that we have been, and hopefully shall continue to be, the leader of the free world, offering help and guidance, peace and prosperity, where and when we can, as best we can, and asking little in return. If that makes us an empire, so be it. But I think “leader of the free world” is the only label we’ll ever need or — one hopes — ever want.

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[MNJohnnie]

When the Archbishop of Canterbury accused the US of pursing Imperialism in Iraq, Colin Powell supposedly said to the effect of this

During the last century the US has fought in many places for the freedom of many people. In the end, all we have ever asked from those people is enough land to bury our dead.

The notion that there is “An American Empire” is pure hysteric drivel screamed by idiot level IQs who have utterly no grasp of historic, or current, reality.

[Hunterite]

In recent years, however, there’s been an attempt to rehabilitate the e-word. Historian Niall Ferguson deserves primary credit for the mainstreaming of the empire debate with his 2004 book Colossus. He faced the empire charge head-on, saying, in effect, “Yeah, so what’s your point?” The world needs a stabilizing watchman to keep the bad guys in check and to promote trade, he argued, and America is the best candidate for the job.

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Regardless of the PC status of the word “Empire”, an “Empire” usually has an emporer.

Now, if we continue along this line of massive immigration, then we may officially become an empire, as America balkanizes, and we would have to reconquer or recolonize the States.