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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 2300210" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Son you are so far off base I don&#039;t know where to start.&nbsp; Let&#039;s look at empires.&nbsp; The Mongolian empire.&nbsp; The Aztec empire.&nbsp; The British empire.&nbsp; So many others throughout history.&nbsp; Generally a dominant group, either in numbers or technology, sometimes both, forces it&#039;s will on other groups, benefiting from taking away their wealth for it&#039;s benefit.&nbsp; Killing, enslaving, imprisoning those who resist.&nbsp; Usually collapsing in time from it&#039;s own corruption and decadence, or being stopped and defeated by it&#039;s adversaries.&nbsp; Granted the U.S. meddles in other countries&#039; business, and has invaded some countries.&nbsp; But name the countries that we are running, with our military there forcing them to do our bidding?&nbsp; The closest we&#039;ve come to acting like an empire was in the Phillipines in the early 1900&#039;s and Nicaragua in the late 20&#039;s.&nbsp; Installing puppet regimes like the Shah of Iran isn&#039;t the same thing as having your troops and your bureaucracy running everything as the Soviet Union did or the British Empire did.&nbsp; And Michael Moore is a socialist who tries to put everything in a bad light because he hates capitalism with a passion.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 2300210, member: 24302"] Son you are so far off base I don't know where to start. Let's look at empires. The Mongolian empire. The Aztec empire. The British empire. So many others throughout history. Generally a dominant group, either in numbers or technology, sometimes both, forces it's will on other groups, benefiting from taking away their wealth for it's benefit. Killing, enslaving, imprisoning those who resist. Usually collapsing in time from it's own corruption and decadence, or being stopped and defeated by it's adversaries. Granted the U.S. meddles in other countries' business, and has invaded some countries. But name the countries that we are running, with our military there forcing them to do our bidding? The closest we've come to acting like an empire was in the Phillipines in the early 1900's and Nicaragua in the late 20's. Installing puppet regimes like the Shah of Iran isn't the same thing as having your troops and your bureaucracy running everything as the Soviet Union did or the British Empire did. And Michael Moore is a socialist who tries to put everything in a bad light because he hates capitalism with a passion. [/QUOTE]

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