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Old 05-14-2008, 02:12 PM
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I'm not asking for you to prove anything, i am asking for you to make a case that the US does not practise neocolonialism and/or that imperiallism is the modern day domination that takes the guise of neocolonialism.
By your own admission, you are asking me to prove "that the US does not practise neocolonialism." That is the rough equivalent of my asking you to prove that the Vatican does not secretly practice Presbyterianism.

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I have shown you why i believe the US to be an empire...
You have? And how, precisely, have you shown the US to be an "empire," in contradistinction to its merely being a great power?
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