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"US foreign policy expert Charles W. Maynes argued only two years ago, the US 'is a country with imperial capabilities but without an imperial mind.'

That is a thesis hardly worth defending today as the unilateralism of the Bush administration begins to more and more look and sound like imperial hubris -- and as more and more spokesmen for US ruling circles argue the logic, correctness and alleged humaneness and benevolence of US imperial rule."