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...effectively written the wet dream of all those who did. The adolescent fantasy of a lone ranger detective single-handedly thwarting the plot of terrorists has alarming implications for unilateral American militarism (though one must wonder if Thomas sees the humor in having his duo defend an imperialist monarchy...
...theater. A typical scene pits Memo against Carla in a long argument about the purity of Carla's motives for staying in Mexico. It lasts for over five pages with Memo saying things like "You teach over-priced English classes to under-educated Mexican morons who buy into the imperialistic American model?" To which Carla wonders about Memo's real reasons for learning English. "It wouldn't have anything to do with buying into imperialist American aesthetics of female beauty, and wanting to get into some naturally-blond pants?" It's a rarity to find oneself talking back at comic...
...Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly snappy name that sneakily prejudges the issue: The world is now convinced that the war was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.The world is wrong.By 1840, the British had several difficulties with China. For a decade, London had rejected China’s insistence that British royal officials could only communicate with provincial Chinese authorities indirectly by way of “petition...
...American, American imperialist and tenured professor of History writes...
...Sometimes, of course, it does nothing of the kind - witness Iraq. As Mandelbaum reminded me last week, the fact that the U.S. has some of the characteristics of a government does not mean that it is omnipotent. Indeed, while many enjoy painting U.S. economic, military and political power as "imperialist," what is striking - with Iraq as the major exception - is how restrained the U.S. has been in the exercise of its power since the collapse of the Soviet Union, when no nation or group of nations has been in a position to cut it down to size. The potential check...