The New American Empire?
Americans have an enduring aversion to planting the flag on foreign soil. Is that attitude changing?
By Jay Tolson
Posted 1/5/03
Page 9 of 9
"We ourselves are becoming, owing to our strength and geographical situation, more and more the balance of power of the whole world."
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1910
"I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
HARRY TRUMAN, State of the Union, 1947
"In a world that is safe, people will be able to make their own lives better. We will defend the peace by fighting terrorists and tyrants."
GEORGE W. BUSH, National Security Strategy, 2002
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