Since the end of the Cold War more than a decade ago, America has gone to war in Iraq, Somalia, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan.

America has military troops in 156 countries, and military bases and troops in 63 other countries, and since 9/11 has placed 13 more military bases in 7 additional countries.

Many countries around the world are wondering who is America going to attack next. Arab countries in particular see the American presence in the region two ways:

1. An intrusion to their affairs.

2. An infidel in holy land whose presence must be kicked out.

Because America is the Modern Empire (as powerful as the Roman Empire once was, only much, much nicer than what the Romans were) its presidents believe that its way of government (democracy) should be established in the rest of the world, so we can all live as a "Big happy family." This in theory sounds like a happy ending, but it is like wanting that your whole household eat the same for breakfast every day. That's not going to happen, because every region has a different background, a different culture, and most of all; different beliefs, and imposing a certain way of government last time I checked was called Dictatorship.

This belief that our way of life is the best and should be applied to the rest of the world is not new, it is not even from modern era, it comes way back since the founders of America came from England. Reverend John Colton, a radical English protestant and one of the founders of our land crossed the Atlantic Ocean convinced that the promised land was the place where they would accomplish the mission that God had given them. In 1630 he wrote:

"No nation has the right to evict other if it is not by a design from heaven, like the one the Israelites had, unless the natives act unfairly with their nation, in this case, that nation would have a right to legally go to war against them and subdue them"

This was the birth of the "Manifest Destiny" published for the first time in an article titled "Annexation" in the Democratic Review magazine in New York in the issue July/August, 1845.

The second interpretation came from a journalist O'Sullivan who quote Colton in the New York Morning News on December 1945 to promote Oregon and Texas annexation:

"This is based upon the right of our Manifest Destiny to possess the whole continent that providence has given to us to develop our goal of Liberty and self-government"

Republicans then used it again in 1890, Historian William

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