[sportutegrl]

As for the anticolonial stuff, well, our founding fathers were anticolonial.

That's the one main disagreement I have with Dinesh's otherwise good article. He claims that Americans don't understand anticolonialism. Not true. We were the original anticolonialists and started the trend.

[allmendream]

I think Dinesh’s point was that the anti-colonial mindset of the modern anti-colonial movement is that the First world is only wealthy to the degree that they exploit the third world.

I don't recall any of the founders postulating that England was only wealthy and powerful due to its unjust domination of its colonies.

Our founders were, ideologically, much more anti-royalist (divine right of Kings and all that rot) and pro-Republic than anti-colonialism.