Posted 8/22/2002 07:35:00 AM by Douglas

An interesting take on emerging American Imperialism from Right Wing News:

Rarely a day passes on the internet without another article being written that claims America is a "hegemon", that we're like "like Rome," or that we want to "create an empire." Take it from a Conservative, ultra-nationalistic, America-first hawk; Americans on the whole would rather drive bamboo shoots under their fingernails than "rule the world."

If you want put it in perspective, it's like we're the guy who ended up being the designated driver for the planet. Sure we'd love to sit back and drink ourselves into a stupor with the rest of the globe but we're responsible for getting as many people home safe and sound as possible. Every so often while we're sitting around wishing we could kill a few beers like the rest of the planet, a sloppy drunk, drooling, Europe comes over to where we're sitting. Then they take another swig of Vodka straight out of the bottle and tell us not to worry about a thing because they'll drive everyone home in their 'international law' van. But we know if we go ahead and drink up that we'll just get a call at 4 am asking us to bring our tow truck and the 'jaws of life' to clean up the bloody mess on dead man's curve. That's the burden of being an American.

I love the "designated driver" analogy, and he's probably right when it comes to the Average American "Conservative" out in the fly-over states agreeing with him.
But where he's totally off the mark is with the Neo-Con punditry and the real Axis of Evil (Wolfowitz, Perle, and Woolsey).

The aspirations of empire from them, along with the National Review and Fox News flavor of conservatives isn't even being obfuscated anymore.