No attempt to lump it into Jorge's other failings whatsover. I've not forgotten that that foreign adventure started under Clinton. But, that he chose to entangle us further into that sad part of the world only told me that, at bottom, Bush is just another two-bit politician.
And, if we're going to try and be an empire, at least let's get something out of it. They might have been corrupt, but at least the Romans and French were smart enough to make their imperial adventures economically worthwhile. Because we're such good guys (and the American nation is), our leaders are letting us and our children pay for their imperial misadventures.
“Empire”? I didn’t realize we’d colonized Kosovo and Iraq.
Words have no meaning among the BDS crowd. Just toss them out there and hope your audience is impervious to actual definitions. Hell of a stategy there.