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    The Cost of Empire
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    John Tirman in his book 100 Ways America is Screwing Up the World says, "When Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin kicked off the Cold War, they probably did not realize what a long game it would be." More than four decades and many ruinous conflicts later, the Soviet empire collapsed. Full Article at History News Network
    When Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin kicked off the Cold War, they probably did not realize what a long game it would be.
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The Cost of Empire
  1. legitimizes relationships between exploiters and exploited economically, killers and victims militarily, dominators and dominated politically and alienators and alienated culturally.
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  2. The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.
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  3. a system of unequal exchanges between the center and the periphery.
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  4. similarities to the old European imperialist powers.
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