USA: The Good Empire
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Shotgun, kudos to your patience man.
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Originally posted by rokkie:
its the Americans that are paying for it with their economy
Seems like you don't understand the economy.
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USA is the global hegemon as they are militarily the strongest state.
They also aspire to be the dominant power in the world.
This can be seen from their "Full-spectrum dominance" concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45289
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Vision_2020
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ENG401A.html
http://www.americanempireproject.com/
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20031007.htm
Their goal is clear enough.
Global hegemony.
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Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
USA is the global hegemon as they are militarily the strongest state.
They also aspire to be the dominant power in the world.
This can be seen from their "Full-spectrum dominance" concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45289
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Vision_2020
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ENG401A.html
http://www.americanempireproject.com/
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20031007.htm
Their goal is clear enough.
Global hegemony.
the only thing that is Clear from your post is that U closed your mind. And that is a very sad decision that you made for yourself. Because you deny yourself the opportunity to Growth. -
In what way closed mind?
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
the only thing that is Clear from your post is that U closed your mind. And that is a very sad decision that you made for yourself. Because you deny yourself the opportunity to Growth.
it's not about closed mind,we should know what's right and wrong,Critisize US ,does not mean no cooperation,business is business
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The Global Deployment of USA Military Personnel
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?
America's Empire of Bases
http://www.alternet.org/story/17563/
Not global hegemon?
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I'm close to giving up. I'm like arguing with a deaf mule.
Those are not bases, but divisions of command. US military forces within whichever region automatically falls under the command of the respective Commanders of the region. That is all the diagram is showing.
The US military maybe the most powerful in the world, but it is not unmatched. However, being a Superpower, it has interest to maintain global stability. You don't become a superpower without having the capability to project power on a global scale.
Do you think USEUCOM is able to fight the combined militaries of Europe and Russia without going nuclear? NO. Therefore the diagram does not even represent military superiority in the region.
And finally, the definition of a hegemon, spelt out. Perhaps I should have done this earlier...
A hegemon may be defined as a state or power that can dictate the policies of all other powers in its vicinity, or that is able to defeat any other power or combination of powers that it might be at war with.
The US does not dominate policies on a global scale. If the US is truly a global hegemon, the entire world, every country would be nothing more than a vassal state of the USA.
You can call USA an evil empire, irresponsible superpower, bully, whatever. But it definitely isn't a global hegemon. The way it looks, it will not be one in the near future as well.
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Is USA imperialism okay with you?
I thought it was a sensitive term so I used global hegemon.
Imperialsim 101
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html
Killing Hope
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/
Why does the U.S. overthrow regimes in other countries?
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Originally posted by rokkie:
it's not about closed mind,we should know what's right and wrong,Critisize US ,does not mean no cooperation,business is business
I'm close to giving up. I'm like arguing with a deaf mule -
Hizbollah Rules West Beirut In Iran's Proxy War With USA
By Robert Fisk
10/05/08 "The Independent" - -- Another American humiliation. The Shia gunmen who drove past my apartment in west Beirut yesterday afternoon were hooting their horns, making V-signs, leaning out of the windows of SUVs with their rifles in the air, proving to the Muslims of the capital that the elected government of Lebanon has lost.
And it has. The national army still patrols the streets, but solely to prevent sectarian killings or massacres. Far from dismantling the pro-Iranian Hizbollah's secret telecommunications system – and disarming the Hizbollah itself – the cabinet of Fouad Siniora sits in the old Turkish serail in Beirut, denouncing violence with the same authority as the Iraqi government in Baghdad's green zone.
The Lebanese army watches the Hizbollah road-blocks. And does nothing...
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
I'm close to giving up. I'm like arguing with a deaf mule
same to u ,deaf mule.If just come to forum,and say sth like i don't want to talk about it anymore,it's like u lose already.Discussing political affair ,it's not about right and wrong,it's about mutual inspiration.If u don't want to play with the rules.Quit urself. -
everyone have different position ,it's like right wings never convice the left wing,the democratic never convince the republic.Right to discuss,is important because it's the right to think.
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Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize speech: a brave artist speaks the truth about US imperialism
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/pint-d09.shtml
Harold Pinter’s Nobel Prize speech
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“Economic Hit Man” John Perkins Recounts US Efforts to Block Nationalization of Panama Canal
JOHN PERKINS: Well, there’s no question in my mind that both Jaime Roldos and Omar Torrijos were assassinated by CIA-sponsored jackals. When we economic hit men failed to bring these people around, to corrupt these presidents, we knew that standing in the shadows were the jackals. And they either overthrew governments or assassinated leaders. And so, although it was deeply, deeply disturbing to me, I was not terribly surprised when this happened.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/8/
Trying to Kill Fidel Castro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
Saddam Hussein was America's man in Baghdad
Now comes a UPI story, based on interviews with various British and U.S. intelligence sources, claiming that from Jack Kennedy in the early 1960s on up to the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, Saddam was in the hands of the CIA. In his early twenties, Saddam was recruited to kill Iraqi prime minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, UPI reports. He had given the U.S. a fright by backing out of the pro-West Baghdad Pact, which brought together Turkey, Britain, Iran, and Pakistan in a defensive alliance against the Soviets. Having ditched the pact, Qasim started buying Soviet arms and installing Communists in top positions, all of which led then CIA chief Allen Dulles to say Iraq was "the most dangerous spot in the world."
According to the UPI report, Saddam led a farcical attempt to kill Qasim...http://www.unknownnews.net/saddam.html
USA starting to make military moves against those regimes in latin america that don't kowtow to it:
The Return of the Fourth Fleet
After 58 years, the United States Navy will reactivate the Fourth Fleet, which will be in charge of patrolling Latin American waters...
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/3427
Venezuela to buy Russian weaponry worth $2 bln
...Venezuela and Russia have also agreed on the purchase of four Kilo-class Project 636 diesel submarines. The terms of the deal, estimated at $1.2 billion, were negotiated late last year.
The Project 636 submarine is designed for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface-ship warfare, and also for general reconnaissance and patrol missions. It is considered to be one of the quietest diesel submarines in the world...
http://en.rian.ru/business/20080512/107175661.html
Hugo Chavez vows to 'bury USA' in 21st century
http://en.rian.ru/world/20080425/105913695.html
Quiet US Confession: Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19908.htm
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"How Far Left Has Latin America Moved?"
Everyone seems to agree that Latin America has moved leftward in the period after 2000. But what does this mean?
If one looks at the elections throughout Latin America, parties to the left of center have won them in a large number of countries since 2000 - most notably in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and most recently Paraguay.
There are of course important differences between the situations in these countries. Some of these governments seem pretty close to the center. Others talk a more revolutionary language.
And there are a few exceptions - notably Colombia, Peru, and Mexico (although in Mexico, the conservative government won the last elections with about the same degree of legitimacy as Bush won the 2000 elections in the United States).
The real question is not whether Latin America has moved left, but how far left has Latin America moved...
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So Poh Ah Pak, what do you understand by Latin America "moving left?"
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So Poh Ah Pak, what do you understand by Latin America "moving left?"
Discarding the USA economic agenda.
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/1
http://books.google.com.sg/books?
http://www.iwgvt.org/files/9-gowan.rtf
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Thank God you don't teach your brand political science in any college then. You remind me of Hugo Chavez though.. hmm..
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So you support USA global hegemony?
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How can I support something that doesn't exist?
US is a superpower, and superpowers have very strong military presence world wide. Its an understood fact. However, the US military can easily be match by a combination of European, Chinese, and Russian forces. It cannot dominate all these combinations at once, and hence cannot be considered a global hegemony as you suggest.
I support the US military actions in Iraq because I know it HAS stabilized the region, and Iraq can be set on course to full recovery. The only thing that stands in the way is this sectarian violence thats going on. If the Shiites and Sunnis there can just stop fighting/bombing/jihading, the US military can pull out.
The only reason the US military is still stuck there is because these two groups can destabilize the region. If not for the bigger picture, why would any country want to sacrifice their troops lives for somebody elses' family squabble? Because the fight can spillover and threaten the delicate stability of the region.
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US is a superpower, and superpowers have very strong military presence world wide. Its an understood fact.
That is equal to global hegemony in my view.
I support the US military actions in Iraq because I know it HAS stabilized the region
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So middle east now more peaceful than pre-2003?
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Originally posted by Shotgun:
Sure there is sectarian violence, terrorist bombings day in day out. People question whether Iraq is truly better off with American intervention. I ask, "Are the Americans responsible for the actions commited by the terrorist? Who is at fault when a suicide bomber decides to walk into a bus stop and detonate himself? The Americans?" Please! Don't blame the yanks for problems that already exist and instead swept under a rug. Besides, its the Americans that are paying for it with their economy and blood of their troops now. What are you complaining about?The whole bloody Iraqi invasion was a strategic error of many orders, rooted in idiocy by a stupid administration. So I don't see why we can't blame the "yanks" for the insane stupidity for it, not least the infantile media over in the US.
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Precisely, its in YOUR view. The world can be flat in your view, but it doesn't mean that is the universally recognized view.
Yes. Look at the countries around Iraq. Do they look to be in any state of chaos or disruption or depression? They are experiencing economic growth and prosperity, and busy modernizing their societies.
Honestly, the world is only looking so "unsafe" thanks to a fast and efficient media. More violence both in scale and frequency took place around the world in the past, just that they weren't reported as "Breaking" news within half an hour. We are experiencing the lowest levels of deaths caused by organized violence since the 1950s.
Has the world become more "unsafe" ever since the decline of the Soviet Union, and the world "descended" into the "dark depths" of a unipolar world with USA as the sole superpower?
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Do they look to be in any state of chaos or disruption or depression?
Yes.
Turkey/Kurds.
Lebanon.
Israel/Palestine
Iran/Syria - Israel/USA
Afghanistan
Pakistan
All thrown into chaos by USA foreign politics.