empire

Topic: Mailer 2

President Bush, “We’ll do everything we can to remind people that we’ve never been a nation of conquers; we’re a nation of liberators.” If we are not a nation of conquers and don’t plan to take over the world what gives us the right to use the same force, but call it something different. While America remains a republic within its own borders, it has become an empire in relationship to the rest of the world. What began as a motley band of colonies 225 years ago is now not only the strongest nation in the world but the strongest nation in the history of the world.

What both Americans and the world must internalize is that no one is even remotely capable of leading this effort but the United States. The only problem with accepting this fact is that most people think that we are on the wrong path doing so. Iraq might be looked at as a steeping stone to controlling the rest of the world, but it just doesn’t make sense to me. If the war in Iraq does go our way and we win. what are we really winning? Oil would be the first thing that most people would argue, but it makes absolutely no sense to say that. The government has spent over a 100 billion on this war already. Take those numbers and compare them to how much money we have spent on eliminating American vulnerability to foreign oil. I could almost guarantee that if all the money spent in Iraq went towards funding altertantive fuel sources in the next five years we would be able to wing ourselves from foreign oil.

If we continue down the path that we have taken over the last five years, we will continue to create enemies and further isolate ourselves from the world community, manufacturing hate and suspicion across the globe. We are engaged now engaged in building a global movement for peace and justice in a new kind of world, and we need a new global strategy. America is becoming an empire, and theirs no turning back.