2007-12-17 22:41:54 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Sure it hasn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution
2007-12-17 22:52:16 · update #1
Not yet!
2007-12-17 22:46:15 · answer #1 · answered by Capt.Sensible 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wayne G - "We are not continually invading other countries, taking away their sovereignty".
Are you residing on the same planet as the rest of us?
Name me one other nation that has invaded, attacked or bombed more countries since the end of WW2?
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-02
Albania 1997
Bolivia 1986-87
Bosnia Herzegovina 1993, 1995
Cambodia 1969-75
China 1945-46, 1950-53
Croatia 1995
Cuba 1959-60, 1962
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Grenada 1982-83
Guatemala 1967-69
Haiti 1994
Honduras 1982
Indonesia 1958
Iran 1987-88
Iraq 1991-2002
Korea 1950-53
Kuwait 1991
Laos 1971-73
Lebanon 1958, 1982-84
Liberia 1990, 1997
Libya 1981, 1986, 1989
Panama 1958, 1964, 1989
Peru 1965
Philippines 1989
Serbia 1999
Somalia 1992-94
Sudan 1998
Tajikistan 1986
Uruguay 1947
Uzbekistan 1986
Vietnam 1961-73
Virgin Islands 1989
Yugoslavia 1992-94, 1995, 1999
Zaire ( Congo ) 1964
2007-12-18 00:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by G M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The correct question is: Has the United States ever NOT been an Imperial nation?
2007-12-19 00:34:21 · answer #3 · answered by jake 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In it's two hundred odd years of independence the USA has often been an 'Imperial' nation. Just because Americans don't see the illegal annexation of the independent kingdom of Hawaii as imperialism that doesn't mean to say it wasn't. Seizure and occupation of the Philippines, genocide of the Native Americans and seizure of their land?. Americans would do well to read their history they might see they were no better than other Western Nations despite their high moral tone.
2007-12-20 06:32:05 · answer #4 · answered by Rob Roy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do not have it exactly right. That's what happens when you use Wikipeida. Please read the history below for your answer.
EDIT- Interesting answers. It appears some people do not see any difference between imperialism and a desire to share the blessings of liberty and the wealth generating powers of Capitalism with the rest of the world. Amazing how so many see America as the problem instead of what it actually is, the solution.
Merry Christmas!
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2007-12-17 23:48:23 · answer #5 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It depends how you define 'Imperial'.
1. An empire or a sovereign, especially an emperor or empress (the 'official' de jure definition).
2. Having extensive colonies, territories or dependencies (the de facto definition).
Under definition 1 the answer is certainly 'no'. Using definition 2 the answer is subject to debate.
2007-12-17 22:52:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
well look around you mate.
your Emperor the majestic Pharaoh Bush-e-ses the inept,
has already proclaimed the Empirium is going to make all the world America, all will bow to the mighty USA.
His empire will fall like Rome only faster and the USA will loose faith of everyone in the world.
I think you American are a great people , i hope you get that meglomaniac out soon before he destroys the USA and the rest of the free world in an unwinable war
2007-12-17 23:01:25 · answer #7 · answered by IHATETHEEUSKI 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Turn on a TV almost anywhere in the world and you will see US cultural imperialism in action. US corporations, facilitated by US governments and the military industrial complex, have long practised economic imperialism.
2007-12-17 23:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the US never engaged in empire building, which is the definition of imperialism. Think of the British empire, the Ottoman empire, the Roman empire.
We built a country and maintain it. We are not continually invading other countries, taking away their sovereignty and forcing them to be part of our empire. If we were that evil you wouldn't have millions of people flocking to this country like we do.
If we were an empire, we could do something like take over Mexico so the illegal bastards could stay where they belong. Get it? Instead we let them come here, break our laws, kill and rape our citizens. Does that sound like an empire to you?
Whatever trash your liberal professor is trying to shove down your throat, don't buy it. use your brain to figure out the truth.
Tell me how, with your ridiculous site reference, tell me how the US compares to the Nazi empire
or the Russian empire? Wake up already. Have some pride in yourself and don't believe the lies of the left. You'll be a better person in the long run.
2007-12-17 23:16:06 · answer #9 · answered by Wayne G 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The United States are only 500 years old. Compared to other nations it's still a toddler.
2007-12-17 22:53:47 · answer #10 · answered by Hansolo 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, but it was a colony of the British Imperial Empire.
2007-12-17 22:50:10 · answer #11 · answered by SteveLaw 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋