The "Good" Empire

In the midst of all the good feeling about America during this new administration, it is good--perhaps very necessary--to remember that the project of "empire" while taken to unique heights during the reign of the neoconservatives, was not anything new. And, with rumblings of expanding colonial adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, any US leader is capable of going down that road. With dangerous talk of American exceptionalism being echoed even by those on the "left," a brief reminder above.

Beware blowback.


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