I was disappointed to find this post shares with some of my recent posts the ignominy of being completely ignored. Having thought long and hard about how I might make my posts more enticing, I thought I might offer you the fruits of my reflections. In this case, for example, I would re-title the thread - say, "Full-on African Invasion - The New U.S. KKK Imperial Grand Wizard Strategy", and then perhaps explain why the Grand Wizard has moved from being a staunch isolationist to a staunch interventionist. As to some of the details of your argument: --- Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Imperialism is constant for capitalism. I would source this "constant" to the relevant maths, physics or other textbook in order to avoid any impression that it is just high-handed pretentious drivel. > But it passes > through various phases as the system evolves. Beautifully put. After all, everything that evolves "passes through various stages", n'est ce pas? This thought seems to me a twin of your own. We can both surely and equally claim independence and originality. >At > present the world is experiencing a new age of > imperialism marked by a U.S. grand strategy of global > domination. Link this to spy novels, conspiracy theories, james bond movies; it is, of course, all-too-plausible and needs no further substantation. And hey, wasn't "global domination" always the Yank's "grand strategy"? Yeh, tell me about it! >One indication of how things have changed > is that the U.S. military is now truly global in its > operations with permanent bases on every continent, > including Africa, where a new scramble for control is > taking place focused on oil. Absolutely. A friend of mine has family members who, taken together, have "permanent bases on every continent". In fact so do some microbes, such as the ones I sometimes sneeze. Only now have I truly seen and been shocked and awed that this means they are all "truly global in their operations". It's frightening. Donal Standing on the coat-tails of giants London ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos is now offering a quality print service from just 7p a photo. http://uk.photos.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html