Do you feel the american empire is declining?

Answer 1

American is not now and has never been an empire.

Answer 2

There is no American Empire, at least not in the classical sense of all Empires that have come before. There is however is an American Hegemony which is perpetuated intentilonally and unintentionally through cultural communication. Wikipedia has a very good article on the subject of an American Empire.

Answer 3

I don't feel there is an american empire. An empire is a country that is made up of a series of distinct nations all bound together under the imperial government. Except for Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa, the USA isn't much of an empire...

Answer 4

Its no longer unavoidably a count number of Americas decline in ability. like quite a few countries she has suffered Militery economic and political woes. compared to the tremendous melancholy the present stoop isn't something. the topic matters confronted in Iraq and Afghanistan are very actual, yet so the position those of Vietnam and Korea. Korea turned right into a stalemate and Vietnam a disaster yet they did not signal the 'end of Americas ability' What take position changed into that once the yankee victory of the chilly warfare there turned right into a era of optimism and a era even as u.s. changed into unrivalled and unchallenged. this era is wisely and incredibly over. u.s. has actual competitors again, both pleasant like the 'eu union' and ones which could teach no longer so pleasant like China no longer to point India Indonesia a resurgent Russia and so on. Its no longer Americas decline that the precedence yet that others upward push . It nonetheless has many advantages over the growing to be powers yet will no longer be able to save them for ever given the lead in human beings and raw components places like India and China have, the most important to prosperity and peace is to settle for that and take care of it no longer deny it or attempt to dangle on to the fleeting days of unfettered supremacy.

Answer 5

What empire? It's fifty states and a couple of territories.
The only folks who accuse the U.S. of being an empire are the same foreigners who think OUR president is the leader of the whole world.

To those folks, I say this: Get over it, and get a life, already.

Answer 6

Yes. America is the new Rome. Remember the Roman Empire and how "great" it was? It fell. Where is it now? The bigger we are the harder we will fall.

Answer 7

Yes... like all empires.... they all fall or atleast lose their throne... we should take a lesson from France and Britain and learn to live with being second best.

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

yes cus 911 is starting2come out and other countries believe we're guilty of warcrimes and oil hungry

Answer 10

ohh not really, its just that we have more media and news telling us all the things that are wrong, im pretty sure it was worst in the past, just we didnt know more about the things that were happening.