The cost of a unipolar world, is the US Empire a net gain for Americans?

[renard_ruse]

Is the US Empire, ie its defacto domination of virtually the entire world, with military bases in over a hundred countries, troops involved in numerous wars and conflicts across the globe, etc, a net benefit to Americans?

What does the American public get from this, besides a twisted sense of national pride, a huge bill to the taxpayers, and animosity from the rest of the world?

Is it time we start debating the price of empire, and the benefits to Americans of what one writer has called the "US led global system"? Why or how is this good for ordinary taxpaying Americans, rather than for the "western" global elites and "western" multinational corporations?

 

[renard_ruse]

In particular, can neo-conservatives explain what benefit the US empire actually provides to the American people here at home or to the advancement of conservative policies domestically? We can't even control our own border but we can put troops in 100 countries around the world. For what?

 

[Bry1313]

I see no benefit to it.

 

[Bry1313]

I see no benefit to it.

 

[fade-into-you]

What...?

The US dominates "virtually the entire world... military bases in over a hundred countries, troops involved in numerous wars and conflicts across the globe..."

Please provide support for your... wildly wrong assertions. Even the left-leaning wikipedia reports far less than 100 countries - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_bases .

And Afghanistan and Uganda (the current locations of US combat troops involved in combat operations) are apparently "numerous wars and conflicts" and "across the globe" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#2010.E2.80.93present .

Whatever are you rambling about? You seemingly have the intellect of a Bazooka Joe comic strip - said politely, of course.

 

[KingOrfeo]

In particular, can neo-conservatives explain what benefit the US empire actually provides to the American people here at home or to the advancement of conservative policies domestically?

I think you'll find advancement of conservative policies domestically is not a priority to neocons. They seem to just assume that will happen absent socialist pressure abroad (also, what they regard as "conservative policies" is less social-conservative and more economic-libertarian than what you're thinking of). They're all about foreign/military policy and the global picture.