From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 15:05:02 MST
Rick Strongitharm wrote:
>
> But me looooove being close nieghboUr of imperialist!
Yeah, you get to call 'shotgun!' all the time but nobody blames you for
the driveby shootings.... ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.com
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.com]On Behalf Of Spudboy100@aol.com
> Sent: March 17, 2000 11:31 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: American Imperialism?
>
> In a message dated 03/17/2000 10:54:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> neptune@mars.superlink.net writes:
>
> > This makes it sound like that phase is over. America appears to be very
> > imperialist of late... I gather it depends on how one defines
> imperialism.
> > Surely, controlling other nations' internal politics is one indicator.
> If
> > so, then in the past ten years, America has interfered in Somalia, Haiti,
> > Bosnia, and Serbia. It's used military intervention in all four cases
> > mentioned. This is aside from the various and often routine bombings of
> > other nations -- Iraq, the Sudan, Afghanistan.
> >
> > Maybe there's some dividing line I'm missing here.
> >
> > Daniel Ust
> > http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
> >
> But me looooove being imperialist!
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