Was imperialism a proper and legitimate policy for the United States to follow at the turn of the 19th century

Answer 1

no it wasn't it has been a terrible history of our country and has gone against the real view of America

in The 20Th century the US attacked and bombed:

China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991-99
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999

and the 200,000 Filipinos and Filipinas whom the US murdered in the late 1800s when we invaded the Philippines.

How many of those countries attacked the US?

Answer 2

*imperialism- to gain territory to expand an better an "empire" Yes because the United States was trying to have the biggest and best economic, military, social, and political status. Many other places such as England practiced imperialism during this time. So therefore, if the US wanted to become and remain the best it had to use imperialism. This is known as the Darwinism ideology that most territories believed "the superior nation has the right to take an inferior nation".

Answer 3

From what frame of reference?

In terms of today's viewpoint, imperialism is abhorrent and stunningly illegitimate as a policy.

In terms of the times any "great" power was assumed to be pursuing an empire as the expected and appropriate action of such a power. If the US wanted to be a great power, it needed to pursue an empire.

Proper and legitimate are unfortunately flexible and changing over time. We could never pursue such an approach today just as we could not pass up the chance to pursue an empire at that time.

Answer 4

Well why do we stop with the US, why don't we go all the way back and start from scratch?, we can start with Carthage and Egypt and etc. and go from there and rewrite history looking through a 21 century revisionist lens and see what we come up with, why don't we try that?

Answer 5

The U.S. at no time has ever followed the policy of "imperialism" Quit listening to the Liberals and seek the truth.