Ray's Thought for the Day - Living with Imperialism

OK. Say that China was still a part of the British Empire. If China was still part of the British Empire, I bet their top consumer item in China would be opium, and the Chinese would be so doped up they couldn't manufacture those swell macro focusing rails in Shanghai or wherever.

US though, unlike the English Imperialists, have come tardy to Imperialism, hoping to skim a few cheap resources from the various defenseless heathen Paynims so we can use those cheap resources for our lifestyle and still have plenty of money left over to buy macro focusing rails. Slim pickings indeed when the miserable Iraqi oil is supposed to pay for the war to get ahold of the oil. How much does it cost to ship or airmail a tank to Baghdad if you outsource the delivery to a Republican Mammonite run company making a nice profit from delivering that dang tank? Will the tank actually get to Baghdad? Maybe, maybe not.