| If anything would actually push America toward becoming an Empire it is the rest of the worlds "negative reinforcement no matter how you act because you are America" attitude. Personally I do not understand why America simply does not just do as it damn well pleases because the rest of the world hates us regardless of what we do, so why waste resources trying to please the unpleaseable.
We have countries in Europe that brag about how little pollution they cause, and how much America does, mainly because we produce their products for them so the pollution gets made here and the product goes there. Meanwhile China is using old factories that put of fifty times as much pollution as American ones for the same amount of production, and it is America that is expected to improve its' factory controls.
We have 'allies' that beg for our support covertly, but in public they decry that America is an unwanted presence.
We have Puerto Rico that complained about the navel manuevers so we move the base to another spot and they complain about lost revenue, tough. Of course, Germany did the same thing.
Then, of course, we have the Middle East. A group of countries that covertly support terrorists because their religion says they must kill anyone that is not a member. But they have oil so we have to turn our eye away and pretend not to have a problem, because the only world market allowed open to us demands oil, and that same world market would object if we resorted to force to solve the problem. Even if we did find another market there are other countries that would be happy to take our place in that same world market, and would probably be asked to drop a few bombs on our country to get the oil contract...
I see no reason why America does not get fed up and simply take what it wants, could we possibly be treated worse? |