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DTG on 11 July 2008
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mrstickball said:
DTG said:

People see the US as exerting it's dominance and control through economic, cultural, politicaL and military means. It doesn't need to kill vast amounts of people to be a totalitarian regime in this day and age. The common term "imperialist" when applied to the US sums it up quite well. The US is controlling and expansionist but it does so through economy and culture and it's political weight rather than guns (though Iraq is an example of the US becoming more aggressive in expanding it's influence)

.....And how is China, or Europe doing that any differently? Both are exerting their dominance in their own spheres of influence as well.

But again, to compare an "imperialist" United States with historical nations that killed and brutalized millions of people is quite a stretch, no?

 

 

Death? The US promotes murder all across the world, it is well known that the CIA sponsors terrorist factions aligning to US interests all around the world. Just because the US doesn't muder it's own doesn't mean it doesn't keep them under it's thumb while spreading it's arm across the world.

Whether death or lack of "real" freedom (which the US does not provide contrary to government rhetoric) veiled by an illusionary "liberty/democracy"  is a worse fate is debatable.