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Empire Or Hegemony?

By The Daily Dish

Jul 7 2008, 9:34 AM ET

It's a tangled distinction but this reader makes an interesting point:

What distinguishes American hegemony from Empire is that we have never forced a sovereign government to give our army the right to arrest its nation's citizens; a distinction that we are very close to breaking in Iraq.

Would it be unprecedented?



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