"Might American and Turkish Empires Become Competitive?
We Americans are reluctant to think of ourselves as an 'empire.' We like to think of America as mainly a force for good in the world, absent power politics, imperialist motives or the desire to dominate others for our own less than noble reasons. The notion of empire is kind of an offense to our democratic heritage, as the American Empire project points out.
But living in Turkey, it's difficult not to see America as an empire."
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