If "We the People" America really was "an empire", gasoline would be $1 a gallon, because US-occupied Iraqi oilfields would be pumping just for us.
If "We the People" America really was "an empire", we'd never go to war unless we personally could profit from it, and our US citizenship would guarantee shares of those spoils of war.
"We the People" America is clearly NOT "an empire", because not one of those things are true. All that "We the People" America has ever gotten for any of our military actions is the bill.
It is not "Un-American" to ask who did profit from all of this -- as a matter of fact, it is our duty as citizens to question what our leaders are doing with our country.
Why do you continually feel the need to interject yourself into intellectual debates, TheBigIf, expecting to win the argument with nothing more than name-calling, testosterone (that you probably don't have in real life) and slander?
Right and all you did ask was who was profiting from the bill of an American empire that we are not seeing the benefits of. In other words you insinuated that America was an empire but that it did not benefit the people and it was only logical that we should ask who the American empire was benefitting.
I simply presented another possibility to you that we are acting in the nation’s interests abroad and then it was you who started with “name-calling, testosterone (that you probably don’t have in real life) and slander?”
You obviously can not even follow your own train of thought. You also continually act as a hypocrite who does the exact things that you huff and puff about when it is re-directed back at you.
As I said before you are pathetic.
So now the phony Constitutionalist Ron Paul has found new methods to attack our Armed Forces by using government to force his perverted morality on them. The pervert Paul not only supports the rights of terrorists and dictatorships over the rights of the American people but now has voted to put the rights of perverts over the rights of the men and woman serving in our Armed Forces.