Mike Carrell wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products > > >> Mike Carrell wrote: >> >>> >>> The accusation that the US is acting as colonial power in the Iraq >>> conflict >>> is a bit glib. I submit that one general problem that the US has in the >>> world is that we have no real taste for Empire. >> >> >> >> The US out-sourced the task of running an empire. > > Interesting. Are you including international commercial licensing as > 'outsourcing empire'? Or outsourcing manufacturing technology and teaching > other countries the means of quality manufacturing, the better to compete > with us, as 'outsourcing empire'?
A mainly capitalist world is what America wants is it not? > Or protecting Japan with a military shield > so they don't have to invest as heavily in a defense establishment, and > becoming better competitors as 'outsourcing empire'? Or maintaining a stable > economy so the US becomes a preferred respository for wealth so that we > become increaingly dependent on others assuming our debt as 'outsourcing > empire'? Or allowing foreign investment in, say real estate and auto > manufacturing here, which are beginning to eclipse our domestic products, as > 'outsourcing empire'? So what? The British Empire had slums at home. > As I recall we spect great treasure and lives in containing the Soviet use > of client states to spread communism. or should we be without alliances of > any kind? > > Mike Carrell Harry
