How long
> the empire will be able to maintain its internal cohesion without
> variousgroups being at each other throat's (they already are!).
> Don't you think
> that this will create ample opportunity even for much weaker
> enemies? How
> long do you think the Chinese and the Europeans will be willing to
> financeborrowing that maintains the vastly wasteful US economy and
> its expensive
> military machine?
The question is whether there is an empire and if there is one, then what are its boundaries, conceptual or geographical? What is imperialism?
Ulhas