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“We aren’t using our vast power for conquest”

Some of us know this.

at a dinner party some older neighbor, a business man was going on about how the US is questionable in morality in commerce. I suppose shady business guys have to rationalize.

AND in front of the kids. As usual none of the ‘men’ in the vicinity, a few of them military officers, would pipe up. I don’t know why - I miss my father.

I digress.

I said, ‘whoa. The US is not imperialist’.

He got so pissed - that’s how anti patriots argue.

“The US certainly is too imperialist. Of course they are”

This guy wants to argue with a mother in front of her kids over how bad the US is, and point out not only that the kids have a bad country but also a twit for a mother.

Where were the guys?

I asked him to explain his facts.

He said, ‘Oh we took over Guam’.

It was not enjoyable watching a guy deflate so quickly even the kids had to look down and slink out of the room.

But could more people just say to others, ‘just shut up about how bad the US is’?

Especially in front of the kids.

I NEVER heard such scandalous dialogue when I was growing up.

The men certainly would not allow it that’s for sure

The point in this article about the U.S. refraining from conquest is the one that is most debatable. The U.S. is not "imperialist" in the sense that we conquer foreign countries and force them to exist under our own governing jurisdiction. However, in almost every other respect the U.S. functions as an imperialist empire. We don't have the largest military force in the history of mankind for nothing. We impose our will on foreign governments, force them to conduct business on our terms, and have no qualms about toppling them through subversion or military force.

In many cases the relationship -- at least at the leadership level -- is a very amicable one. This is one of the dirty little secrets we're learning about the whole Hillary Clinton and Clinton Foundation debacle. It's no coincidence that the U.S. has pissed away thousands of American lives and more than a trillion dollars in military campaigns in the Middle East for the benefit of governments and powerful people who are contributors to the Clinton Foundation and/or real estate partners with the Bush family.