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MisterNeedleMouse
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Gosh, how racist. Thank goodness this Obama fellow isn't as awful as you, otherwise your country would be in shambles.
Check your privilege Matt
MisterNeedleMouse
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Which one? I am told I have many.
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The executive branch is by far the most powerful branch of government and there are virtually no checks on its power. (These days.)
Not exactly. Charisma is important for keeping the peace with other world leaders.
Try and look at things from the outside looking in. Someone from say-- china, doesn't know anything about our politics, policies, or what we do here in any depth as well as someone from this country does. So what makes them feel differently about our leader? The way he acts around everyone.
No, that doesn't excuse things that are happening here, but I wouldn't exactly say he's implicating imperialism either.
Ps: My boyfriend is doing a radio show, and here he's doing a devils advocate thing. (He's not really a republican) It's very informative:
http://www.papelstaques.net/news/2012/10/audio-devils-advocate-episode-1/
How is he not?
Okay, what kind of imperialistic do you mean? Humanitarian? etc?
The standard definition of imperialism is, "A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force."
America has been occupying countless countries to instill their beliefs for years now.
But how is that ONLY Obama. The thing is that War has been proven as a way for a country to earn money fast, and it was widely accepted after WW2, that doing so would be an automatic fix for the economy. We're just now learning that something like that doesn't exactly work anymore, as proven with Vietnam and the Middle East. There's also other reaspns for US involvement past imperialism. Take for instance North Korea and South Korea, which has US forces deployed on the DMZ at their request.
Or maybe you mean Lybia? The people there were asking for help, but after something like that you have to have a cleanup, and that's the part that promotes backlash. Though, no I don't agree with the invasion of a country, I don't think that the intention is imperialism, I think that usually the intention might be something a little more sincere but is taken the wrong way. However, when you look at the Iraq War, which is still a pile of nonsense in my books, (Not started by obama might I add) you're going to find that yes, THAT was an imperialistic move.
Honestly I'm not concerned with Obama being imperialistic. i don't see it.
It was imperialist after a few years. Originally, it was an actual act or retaliation. Think about it. Almost everyone was for the war in Iraq after 9/11. However, I agree that it should not have lasted that long. Imperialism is when you take over a country. From what is universally understood, the US hasn't tried taking over another country in a while.
It's definitely a rare occurrence.
Prof Gallows
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I dunno about you guys, but I'm finding it very nervewracking that we have an extreme lack of flying cars.
Twelve years ago, I thought we'd have that down at this point.
Twelve years ago, I thought we'd have that down at this point.
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Anyway ZR I'll respond later hurr durr midterm I got to study for.
