As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.