Is The United States An Accidental Empire? By The Globalist

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The United States broke with the foreign policy of the Founders in three wars of choice -- against Mexico in 1848, against Spain in 1898, and against Germany in 1917. Our intervention in the First World War was the equivalent of a European power coming to the United States during the Civil War and saying South wins, North loses. World War II laid the foundation for an American empire. Our forward presence gave impetus to bin Laden, 9/11 and the permanent war on terrorism.

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