Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.
A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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.
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.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.