Word: imperialist
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...Members of the Bush Administration, of course, are not so crass as to admit that their aims in Iraq are imperialist. Yet U.S. soldiers are already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on demonstrators among whom agents provocateurs with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding - we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats...
...imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This...
...policies as a way to liberate the Iraqi people, as shown by choosing to label the project “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” True freedom, however, will never come for the Iraqis as long as they feel that they are under the yoke of an imperialist foreign invader...
Regardless of how America perceives its intentions, much of the Arab world sees President Bush and the U.S. forces as having imperialist intentions—especially in the suggestions that Iraqi oil pay for American companies to rebuild. By opening up the oil contracts and the rebuilding contracts to international competition—rather than just American companies—an international rebuilding force would create the most efficient use of Iraq’s resources while at the same time dispelling fears of American imperialism...
...During a May 2001 speech at Tehran University, Castro compared the United States to the late Shah of Iran, who was deposed in the 1979 revolution. America is an “imperialist king,” he said, but one that “will finally fall, just as your king was overthrown.” To that end, Castro proclaimed: “The people and the governments of Cuba and Iran can bring the United States to its knees...