Quote:
|
Originally Posted by rkzenrage
You cannot be a libertarian and be ok with our current Imperial aspirations, not even a little.
|
We haven't got any.
We never really did. Yeah, we glommed the Phillippines for a while -- more or less because it was the fashion then. And we turned the Phillipines over to the Filipinos.
We never really did because our nation started out on a firmly anti-imperialist footing and this has remained a fundamental. Economic pressure kept us that way: the expenditures of empirebuilding are simply bad for business. And we Americans instinctively hew to that which is good for business, however imperfectly we may do so from year to year. Even our most send-in-the-Marines times have most often been in the service of economics.