Throughout the weekend, with the news that our troops were leaving Iraq and that Libya's Khaddafi was dead, there was a lot of talk on the liberal shows about how many thought we wouldn't actually leave Iraq. The pundits, most of them came from either Africa or the Middle East, were talking about how since we were a nation that had built an empire, we weren't very likely to give it up. So this got me asking the question: Did America really try to build an empire?
Now if you go back 65 years to the beginning of the cold war, there is no doubt that America propped up dictators that would stand against the Soviet Union. And if you think of this as trying to build an empire, then I guess America did do that. And since almost all those dictators, by their very nature
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