And now, as previously promised, a refutation of the belief, inexplicably widespread, that the United States is merely a Republic, and not an empire.

Let me put it this way; the U.S.A. is most assuredly, indisputably, undoubtedly....an empire.

There are two definitions of the word "empire". One, a country ruled by an emporer. Two, a country which has a huge and great amount of political and military control over a vast geographical area.

The U.S. doesn't qualify for emire status according to the first definition, but she most certainly does according to the second.

America started becoming an empire as soon as she freed herself from British rule, and began expanding westward.

She continued this by acquiring part of Mexico, and the west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean, after the Mexican War.

The process continued with the Spanish American War, the acquisition of Alaksa and Hawaii, and it continues today.

Today's version of empire consists in the fact that the U.S. has nearly a thousand military bases around the world in nearly one hundred different countries, and projects her military power all over the world, and has since World War Two.

If that aint an empire, there aint no such thing as empire...