[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Omah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire



By comparison, the USA is very small beer .....

Yes well that's the difference between the USA and britain isn't it. TheUSA has become rich and powerful on it's own, while britain had to for an "empire" (colonialism/genocide) to aquire it's power.

The USA is not an empire. We've accomplished our dominance from our own shores. Not by spreading disease, war, and slavery, like the European empires of the past.