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Imperialistic Ambitions Foreign policy is now fully engulfed with the ideas of war. Now iIt is no longer a matter of tragedies involving millions of souls, involving millions of people but treated by the American news as something affecting only faraway peoples. The Bush administration has declared that there will be a series of military adventures "against terrorism," of which the Afghan and Iraqi wars are only the first. All this sheds a new light on the question of imperialism:. Are all these events mere accidents or the consequences of some bad mistakes by a few evil men, or are they the result of an international system which can't live without wars and crises? The common conception of today presents imperialism as an unfortunate episode that is long past. Most of the colonies are independent, while the cold war that split the world into two hostile blocks is over. They pretend that, aside from a few rogue states, society is consisteds of simply reasonable people seeking the best way to increase trade, development, and progress. If some countries are desperately poor or powerless, this is allegedly due merely to some brief historical legacy, but supposedly everyone is united in a common quest for justice and development. The days when the world is run by the rich minority continue to occur. The continued domination of weak countries by the strong, however, shows that imperialism still exists.
Approximate Word count = 918
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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