>Yohshie wrote:
>
>If you want to make your nation the biggest empire that polices the entire
>world,
>the best way to go is of course to first kick peasants off the land
>and then offshore industrial workers' jobs to other countries.
>Otherwise, you don't enjoy a big surplus population willing to go to
>war at low costs.
>
>*****************
>
>Brilliant!
Except that Japan and much of Western Europe has a larger "surplus population" than does the U.S., at least as measured by employment/population ratios.
Doug