The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.
The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.
Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
Increasingly, Americans don't own America.
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.