[TheBigIf]

Logical? I guess there is no chance that we are only simply looking out for own interests abroad and working with our allies towards a common goal of freedom and prosperity worldwide? The use of the word ‘empire’ by the likes of Paulites or the Code Pink crowd is the usual propaganda against America interests.

[Bokababe]

"I guess there is no chance that we are only simply looking out for own interests..."

If by "our own interests", you mean the interests of the America and the American people, we haven't been looking out for those interests in a very long time -- and that's the point.

Quite sipping on the necon "Save the world" koolaid, and you'd see that.

[Bokababe]

NYCslicker: "We don’t have an Empire, but we are paying for one. Does that make it better, or worse than having an Empire?

Me:"So the next logical question is: If we are paying for an Empire and don't have an Empire, whose Empire have we been paying for? "

Now you can't even bother to read. KMA TheBigIf.