US the "worst imperialist"?

Sunday Times:

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday.

Rowan Williams claimed that America’s attempt to intervene overseas by “clearing the decks” with a “quick burst of violent action” had led to “the worst of all worlds”.

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He said the crisis was caused not just by America’s actions but also by its misguided sense of its own mission. He poured scorn on the “chosen nation myth of America, meaning that what happens in America is very much at the heart of God’s purpose for humanity”.

Williams went beyond his previous critique of the conduct of the war on terror, saying the United States had lost the moral high ground since September 11. He urged it to launch a “generous and intelligent programme of aid directed to the societies that have been ravaged; a check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories; a demilitarisation of their presence”.

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He contrasted it unfavourably with how the British Empire governed India. “It is one thing to take over a territory and then pour energy and resources into administering it and normalising it. Rightly or wrongly, that’s what the British Empire did — in India, for example.

“It is another thing to go in on the assumption that a quick burst of violent action will somehow clear the decks and that you can move on and other people will put it back together — Iraq, for example.”

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The man seems oblivious to facts. Has he not noticed the effort and investment put into Iraq after "a quick burst of violent action"? It is probably more than the British empire spent on all of its possessions. The idea that you can prevent terrorism by “generous and intelligent programme of aid directed to the societies that have been ravaged; a check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories; a demilitarisation of their presence,” demonstrates a lack of understanding of the enemy and of the way we are fighting this war against the Islamist religious bigots.

The first thing he needs to comprehend is that the enemy's religious bigotry is the root cause of the war he is waging against us. Liberal political correctness cannot fix that, because it has become the one form of bigotry embraced by the politically correct. It should not be surprising that the Anglican Church is falling into disarray. He is not very smart.

Jules Crittenden also looks at the Archbishop's charges of "Yanqui Imperialistas."