If you have any doubt that our cold war foes were interested in running
an empire or not, ask the Poles.
On 3/3/2010 1:17 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "William Robb"
From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: UK: Photographer films his own
'anti-terror' arrest,
> He ignores the costs of doing nothing. Forgets the consequences
of having > a different suzerain in the world. The only other
nation that's been in a > compariable position to the one the United
States holds today during it's > entire history was the British
Empire. It's interesting to speculate what > the world would be
like under expansionist China or historically God > forbid, a Nazi
Germany, or for that matter an Imperial Russia or Imperial > Japan,
in the same position. I dare say they would make the World a less >
comfortable place for small rich republics. Maybe we can get the
British > to take up the mantle again and we can retire to complacency.
>
Of course, your arguement is predicated on the presumption that your
cold war foes were actually interested in running a global empire.
About the best that this sort of arguemnt can hold up is a Nazi
Germany or Imperial Japan as posterchildren for how to do it wrong.
The USA tried financial imperialism instead, and succeeded for a
while, but the reality is, any imperialistic empire, whether grown by
force of arms of force of dollars is doomed to fail.
It will be interesting to see what China does, since at the moment to
a great extent, yours country is their financial bitch.
Additionally, Johnson doesn't advocate "doing nothing", so it's a
straw-man argument.
Johnson points out the costs of what we have already done, and
suggests alternatives going forward that might be both more effective
and less costly.
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