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January 5, 2003, Sunday
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; The Burden
By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
(NYT)
6808
words
Late Edition - Final
, Section
6
, Page
22
, Column
1
Correction Appended
ABSTRACT
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Michael Ignatieff article contends America is becoming imperial power, despite Pres Bush's recent speech denying territorial ambitions or desire for empire; says US is laying down rules it wants, enforced by its awesome military power, while exempting itself from whatever global processes it sees as contrary to its interest; says Sept 11 was awakening for Americans, moment of reckoning with their own power and the avenging hatreds it arouses; holds Iraq lays bare realities of America as empire and threat that role represents to liberties and good republican government at home; says empires can survive only by understanding their own limits, even if they act in name of freedom for oppressed, as Bush administration is emphasizing as Iraq situation unfolds; warns of risks inherent in exercising hegemonic power and holds America will take on reordering of entire region if it takes on Iraq; says Sept 11 pitched Islamic world into long struggle to determine how and by whom it will be ruled and America can help shape that struggle, but cannot ultimately control it; photos (L)
Correction: January 26, 2003, Sunday
An article on Jan. 5 about the United States as the ruler of a new kind of empire associated a political theory erroneously with a recent study by a Georgetown University professor about nonmilitary aspects of promoting American interests abroad. ''Warrior caste,'' a concept introduced by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and defined as the military presence used by a world power to project its influence, was not cited in the study by Robert J. Lieber.
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