[Savage Beast]

Post # 9: You're right, El. The U.S. has the power to impose its paradigms on everyone else--does--and probably should. But nothing makes people madder. People will kill to protect their cherished paradigms.

Once in a Liberal enclave on the West Coast, during a silly game, the other players went into a frenzy, talked of lynching me, and refused to speak to me again (some never did to this day)--because I ignored the assumptions of their paradigm.

Americans love new ideas and foreign cultures; America absorbs them hungrily; but our basic values are the best. I realize that this is typical, classic American arogance, but I think we should go into the pockets of resistance and violence and say basically, "This is how it's going to be done," imposing just solutions. That's what we did after defeating the Third Reich and the Japanese Empire, and everyone's all the better for it.

[JSteff]

You are somewhat right but I don't think we even have to go in and impose our values. We are large and successful enough and the values, products, and rewards of doing things our way is so seductive to the majoriy of the rest of the world, we only need to give them a democracy and lots of media and we will win anyway. They will get "the fever", a desire to have the rewards of being like us.

That is why I believe we should be allowed to assasinate leaders of other countries who give us problems. Usually they are the ones who try to keep the people from getting "too much" of America. We challenge their authority and their "ways" just by being us. They people all want to be like us because they see you really can be what ever you want. Not always a great thing to the power structure of other countries.

This is not bad at all. Look at the two main antagonists from WWII. They got "the fever" by our close association with them cleaning up after the war. Now neither of them even want to have an army of any power. Like wise our allies. We weren't able to impose as much on them as we did the bad guys but they still caught "the fever" and we in effect weekened them too. We are a powerful force by just being citizens of our country. Everyone wants the security we enjoy and the benefits of a strong economy that goes with it.

So I don't think we need to go in and actually force anything, just eliminate those who would prevent the citizens of their land from wanting and trying to be like us. We will acheive the what you suggested without having to occupy or subdue a whole country and tell them how we want them to be. Just eliminate those who would prevent that from happening.