Cafferty Believes the United States is an Empire

Jack Cafferty is a CNN commentator who has always held the most radical liberal views on CNN. I suppose the fan base he has is there to combat MSNBC's radical bias that draws in the liberal crowd. Today, he was on CNN, quoting various articles that all seem to agree on one thing: America is a super power that is soon to lose its super power status. They also agree that America is an empire that may soon need to withdraw its troops from around the world.

Empires conquer, pillage, abuse, and use their resources to benefit their homeland. Everything the United States has done was in exchange for something, hence it was not an empire. To defend against this, Cafferty says "It's a contract-empire." This is simply too hilarious.

I'd hope that some people at CNN will argue with him, and stop bashing and falsely accusing America as an "empire" or "imperialist" nation; now that we have a president who is a Democrat, I would hope that they would refrain from such childish logic.

The United States has saved nations from tyranny, oppression, invasion, and radicalization. Sometimes to contain communism, other times to stop terrorism, and other to stop the expansion of a radical ideology such as Nazism. There are few times where these wars of nobility were used to benefit the United States exclusively.

Even the Iraq War which everyone now in hindsight oppose, is not imperialistic, because we see no benefit to the United States. Perhaps Bush does need to explain why we invaded that country and not Darfur or North Korea. Perhaps we do need to investigate our intelligence reports. However, it didn't turn out to be some major big oil conspiracy as once assumed. All the oil profits are going to Iraq. Sure BP (British Patrol) made some profit, so does that mean Britain was the mastermind behind this conspiracy? Sure they have been after Iraqi oil since 1910, but I believe that era of imperialism has been over for decades.

Sometimes people need to see the cup half full instead of half empty. Let's focus on the economy for now and I do hope Obama succeeds, whatever he decides to do.