Thursday, March 06, 2008

Where Is The Empire?

We hear so much these days from leftys that America has an empire. So I have a question or two. Where is it and how does it work?

Conquered by America:

1. The Philippines
2. Japan
3. South Korea
4. Germany
5. France
6. Belgium
7. Holland
8. Italy
9. Sicily
10. Libya
11. Iraq
12. Afghanistan

Plus a few others. Could some one please explain how we made an empire of all that?

Are we practicing mercantilism on them? Extracting taxes? Forcing them to follow our foreign policy? Stationing troops in their country against their will? What?

How is this empire thingy supposed to work?

Prompted by the discussion at Winds of Change HT Instapundit

1 comment:

Snake Oil Baron said...

If liberty and prosperity are seen as imperial qualities then a large section of the planet are part of that empire. I don't claim that the values of liberty and prosperity have been perfected in that region or even in its "capital" of America but they certainly have been polished and refined somewhat and continue to be pursued and promoted. If one belongs to an ideology which sees those values as weak and decadent then all of the nations which pursue and advocate these concepts would be seen as a slowly growing empire which threatens to smother one's own values.

Long live the empire.