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A country blessed with great resources was also blessed with great Founders who bequethed it a system of governance vastly superior to all others, and from it's founding it used it's abilities to protect and defend it's trade (An Act Further to Protect the Commerce of the United States July 9, 1798.), and after time has passed it is cursed by a success of it's blessings that places it beyond all other nations in production, trade, and power.

Gee, it's a tough problem, just maybe it would be best to state it accurately instead of ranting against 'neo-conservatives.

I don't know if 9/11 fundamentally changed the world for the US. It did for me (I am 68, a college educated Navy vet with an interest in history). I have always said that we need the Marines because there were some people in the world that would shoot me right between the eyes, kill my children and grand children (maybe raping them first) and steal my property just because I am an American.

This didn't concern me too much because, I noticed as I traveled the world, they were there and I was here. There also were two oceans between us, and few of them had Navies.

What changed on 9/11 is that they came after us in our warm, snug offices. Unfortunately, they killed more that 3,000 innocent civilians. The original reports, if you recall. feared that 50,000 persons may have been killed.

My response is to hunt them down, and speakingly quite frankly, kill them. I don't want them brought back to stand trial. This is not a judicial process.

Unfortunately, both for us and the world, they come from a region of the world where there really are no legitimate goverments except for Israel. In my unstudied opinion, I can't predict what will happen when we replace Sadam, but it will send a powerful message to those other countries which have supported and support terrorism and terrorists. It may have been fashionable to pull feathers from the eagle's tail a few years ago, but ,hopefully, it now is a dangerous and perhaps fatal game to play.

If we keep our eye an the goal, and do not waver, we will prevail. So, no it is not an American empire, it is a response to the murder of 3,000 plus persons on our territory by an alien entity.

Gee, it's a tough problem, just maybe it would be best to state it accurately instead of ranting against 'neo-conservatives.

What's not accurate? In their own words in print, on TV and radio neocons talk of dominating the world, remaking the entire middle east and bringing liberal democracy to all the dark corners of the globe and using preemptive wars to make sure no one can challange our status. Somehow in my mind that registers diferently than defending our borders or protecting our shipping. Unless of course one concludes that everywhere in the world one can find an American citizen so there must be American military might there just to ensure their safety. I'm not sure but I do not think most Americans would like to be on the recieving side of these equations. If so then it would not be far fetched to conclude that others might not be too keen on it either but I guess their desires don't count when our "national greatness" and "global hegemony" is at stake.