User:Jsbh9317

Imperialism

I seem to remember that a US President declared that part of US foreign policy should be devoted to the establishment of democracies throughout the world.

If this is true - then at least on an intellectual level, US has and is performing an imperialistic policy working much like a mortgage. A dying asset. Because as soon as the stated political objective (as proposed for Afghanistan and Iraq) has been achieved it seizes to be imperialistic, i.e. the two cannot live together in the sense that democratic sovereignty reverts to the “invaded” country.

It’s not imperialism because a country (big or small) tries to influence another, e.g. individual countries within the European Union, South American countries, China v. US etcetera, etcetera. That’s called foreign policy – good or bad, agree or disagree.

Johnathan Scott Jsbh9317 (talk) 18:15, 21 June 2008 (UTC)