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hoch über den anderen Nationen standʺ), Patrick J. Buchanan („A Republic,
not an Empire“) 294 , die Historiker Schlesinger (die USA „would never be an
empire“ 295 ), Gaddis („ʺWe are now even more so an empire, definitely an
empire.“) 296 , Niall Ferguson (ʺThe Empire Slinks Back: Why Americans
donʹt really have what it takes to rule the world.ʺ – „an Empire in Denial“
297 ), Eric Hobsbawn 298 , Michael Hirsh (“relatively benign power”) 299
oder Paul Kennedy (“we are exercising a sort of Imperium” 300 ), der
Soziologe Etzioni (“Semi-Empire”), 301 oder die Politologen Stephen M. Walt
(„The end of the Cold war left the United States in a position of power unseen
since the Roman empire”) 302 , John M. Owen (“If the United States is an
imperial power, the world may never have known such a benevolent empire”)
303 und Andrew Bacevich von der Bostion University (“Like it or not,”
erklärt er, “America today is Rome, committed irreversibly to the maintenance
and, where feasible, expansion of an empire that differs from every
other empire in history.”) Jay Tolson in einer Titelgeschichte „The American
Empire“ des Magazins U.S.News & World Report („Are we witnessing
a smart-bomb imperium?“) 304 ,“ oder die Neokonservativen Dinesh D`Souza
(„Die Amerikaner müssen letztlich erkennen dass die USA ein Empire geworden
ist“) 305 , Max Boot („America should not be afraid to fight ‚the savage
wars of peace’ if necessary to enlarge the ‚empire of liberty’“) 306 , Deepak
294 Los Angeles Times v. 23.2.2003. S.a. ders. In USA Today v. 14.11.2002: “American empire is an intellectual
construct of scribblers and think-tank denizens more familiar with the hazards of graduate
school than of gunnery school. Americans wonʹt send their sons to die for an empire concocted by
talking heads whose boys wonʹt be patrolling that empire. Look at what became of the British in Palestine,
the French in Algeria. Do we really want our own Battle of Algiers in Baghdad? Our own intifada?
An American empire in the Islamic world would put us at endless war in that most volatile of regions…”.
Buchanan steht sicherlich für jene Linie der politischen Kritik an den Neokonservativen, die
von einem zumindest antiisraelischen Hintergrund aus operiert.
295
Zit. nach Luis Teodoro, World Domination, in: Today abs-cbnNews.com v. 20.9.2002
296
U.S.News & World Report v.13.1.2002
297
New York Times Magazine v. 27.4.2003 sowie seine 2004 publizierte Studie Colossus (Penguin Press)
298
Eric Hobsbawn: Only in America, in: The Chronicle of Higher Education v.4.7.2003. Er glaubt, dass die Welt zu
groß und zu komplex sei, um von einer Macht dominiert werden zu können; die destabilisierenden
Effekte dieser Situation seien evident. „Our problem is … that the U.S. empire does not know what it wants to do
or can do with its power, or its limits. It merely insists that those who are not with it are against it.”
299
“U.S. allies must accept that some U.S. unilateralism is inevitable, even desirable. This mainly involves accepting the
reality of America`s supreme might – and, truthfully, appreciating how historically lucky they are to be protected by
such a relatively benign power.”, Michael Hirsh, Bush and the World, in: Foreign Affairs September / Oktober 2002.
300
Debattenbeitrag zu: The Reluctant Empire: In a Time of Great Consequence, in: The Brown Journal of World Affairs
1/2003, S.16.
301
Amitai Etzioni: Implications of the American Anti-Terrorism Coalition for Global Architectures, in: European
Journal of Political Theory 1/2001, S.9-30. Etzionis Text von 2001 sieht viele mögliche Varianten einer zukünftigen
globalen Architektur, aber kein Empire, auch kein US-Empire.
302
Stephen M. Walt: American Primacy. Its Prospects and Pitfalls, in: Naval War College Review 2/2002 S.9.
303
Owen, Transnational Liberalism, S.151.
304
Jay Tolson: The New American Empire, in: U.S.News & World Report v.13.1.2002
305
Dinesh DʹSouza: In praise of American empire, in: The Christian Science Monitor v. 26.4.2002. Der
“Gottvater” des amerikanischen Neokonservatismus Irving Kristol so schon weit früher am AEI (“The Emerging
American Imperium,” August 1997).
306 Zitiert nach National Review v.20.5.2002 S.48. Ähnlich Max Boot im Wekkly Standard 7/2001:„The
most realistic response to terrorism is for America to embrace its imperial role.“ und in der Financial
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