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| i thought that the US doesn't seek Empires isn't that what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said? | |
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| Thats a good answer for public consumption but that's just not true. | |
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| The U.S. has been an Empire 1803 when Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory. The US empire stretched from sea to shining sea and even had colonies in the Philippines. | |
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| Even today we are "nation building" in Somalia, Haiti Kosovo and Afghanistan. | |
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