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From: mjk@ttrdc.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: America: soft, rich, pacifist (how they perceive us)
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Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 14:10:15 EST
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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
 >> tim sevener  whuxl!orb:
 >> According to the official Communist line we are "Imperialist agressors"
 >> who wish to conquer the world to control markets for our capitalist
 >> industries.  I.e. they see us as "imperialists" and expansionist in the
 >> same way we see them as expansionist.  Given our history aren't there some
 >> grounds for this viewpoint? I think so.
 >
 >My answer to your question is no.

If you honestly think that there are no grounds in U.S. history for the
view that the U.S. is imperialist and expansionist, then you don't know
U.S. history very well.  Start with "Manifest Destiny" and end with
Grenada.

Mike Kelly