Re: OT| The Decline and Fall of the American Empire: Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century by 2025

White Spirit <wspirit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 07/12/2010 16:55, Bruce Morgen wrote:

The U.S. has an empire -- just
no formal colonies, which are
terribly out of fashion in
general and would be politically
untenable at home Stateside.

I was under the impression that your head of state is an elected
president, not an emperor.

A certain German chancellor
of the last century was also
duly elected -- would you
contend that the territory
he annexed didn't comprise a
de facto empire? I'm all
for linguistic precision,
but let's not descend into
pendantry.
.

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