The Price of Empire

AMERICANS ARE FOREVER arguing about whether their country is virtuous or sinful, and both sides have strong arguments.It very well may be that the United States, in rebuilding Japan after destroying it, was virtuous - or did the Japanese rebuild their own country? It might have been better to have simply let the North Vietnamese govern south Viet Nam without opposition, without fighting a war, and it might have been better for the United States to never have attacked Iraq. Such are the wages of pro active behavior- controversy........................................................................................................................................and how are our dear Russian friends getting along with their proactive imperial project in the Ukraine? All empires have learned, at length, that the price of empire is high.