It is Time to Cast Aside Dreams of Empire and their Peddlers

USS Maine By National Museum of the U.S. Navy — Lot-3370–7, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70765409

The United States has had two fantasies that are hard to kill. The first is manifest destiny. The second is its feverish twin: Empire. They both have gotten us into trouble since 1898 and the Spanish-American war.

This led to things like the Great White Fleet, and many interventions in Central America. These, Americans in the homeland could care less. But if…