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I've not read the book, but I saw a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) newsshow that talked about American Empire -- people who claimed that US influence in the world amounted to an imperialistic style empire... There was a moderate guy there, who said American Empire is just a trendy catch-word, and the reason why there's a McDonalds in Paris is because the French welcomed it, and continued to frequent it -- of their own free will. American soldiers did not occupy the country and force Parisian to buy food from McD at gun-point! Thus, US influence is of an entirely different nature from that which you call an Empire, such as the British or Roman, which was primarily of a military nature. There is of course a combination of military might, culture, and commerce -- but in the case of the US, commerce is the primary issue. If the French boycott Jerry Lewis and quit eating BigMacs, the US will not attack the nation.
Well that was the opinion of the one dissenter on the programme.
The rest felt the US was an evil empire -- including Samantha Power. I'm not gonna say that she was a stereotypical man-hating feminist bitch from hell, but I must admit that this opinion did flash through my cranium on more than one occasion. It depresses me that a Pulitzer went that way...
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