Actually, on further thought, I'm not sure I have some "principled"
> opposition to imperialism, in some rigid, a priori sense. It does seem to be
> an empirical fact, however, that every U.S. military intervention has been
> evil.
>
"Evil" is one of those words I think always confuses more than it clarifies, but leaving that aside, what's your take on the post-war occupations of Germany and (especially) Japan? The analyses through which some Marxists frown on them, while cheering on Reconstruction, have always boggled my mind - not that you necessarily adhere to any of them, of course.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."