Word: imperialistically
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...small slice of curmudgeonly Cantabs, Harvard can do no right. Harvard is imperialist. Harvard is sanctimonious. Like some watered-down Declaration of Independence, the list of grievances goes...
Similarly, in imperialist Zambia, when a law stipulated that a Black person shopping in a White store must have their merchandise handed out to them through a window, one local activist bought a Land Rover and insisted on driving it through the window, legally destroying a wall of the store and making a leap for the civil rights movement. This last example elicited an appreciative laugh from the small crowd...
...know, I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over. I don't believe he went in there for oil. We didn't go in there for imperialist or financial reasons. We went in there because he bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased...
...years it has become fashionable in the U.S. to think that failed states could be reformed by the imposition from the outside of order and the trappings of democracy, as if Americans could pick up the mantle of empire laid down by European powers. The dream of the neo-imperialists was idealistic; they imagined that after U.S. soldiers had secured Iraq, the infrastructure of the modern state - independent judges, honest civil servants, efficient tax collection - would gradually take shape under a benign American tutelage until, one day, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East was lit. Iraq...
...look at the problem historically, a liberal empire may offer better outcomes—not only to the imperialist but to subject peoples—than the available alternatives,” he said at the signing. “That offends American sensibilities so much that I can not imagine an audience of Americans agreeing with it. It just happens to be true...