Use of the Phrase "American Empire"

[Blue3]

It annoys me.

Or rather, the people who tend to use it tend to annoy me.

I understand wanting to cut the military, cut our military bases, stop conducting so many raids and bombings. But saying we're an empire, treating it black and white and we're the evil... it's just intellectually lazy and dismissive of other facts.

[Blue3]

The Philippines are still about a third of US population, at over 100 million, one of the largest populations in the world.

Behind only 12 countries: China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, Japan, Mexico, and Ethiopia.

In fact, with the Philippines at #13, these are the only 13 countries in the world with a population over 100 million... and together, these countries are over 60% of the world's population.

It's probably the reason WHY we didn't hang onto it at least as a territory.