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Superpower, Empire, and Anti-Americanism  Loading ...   DR.
AHMED: The United States, Andrea, is a giant. Today, it is the
only superpower. You must remember the psychology of the world.
Whether you like it ... don't like it ... I know Americans are
very, sometimes, taken aback,  - But we are not imperialists ...
We want to be left alone... It is like Britain a hundred years
ago. The sun never set on the British empire. Everything that
happened in Tehran or Kabul or Delhi, people said, was organized
by the British. And the British being slightly more subtle in
terms of diplomacy (I won't make any other comparisons) ... but
being slightly more subtle, would allow that rumor to go,
because they would say, - If people think we are omnipotent,
it's not such a bad thing after all. Perhaps we were behind that
big fire in the bazaar. Perhaps we weren't. But it created the
myth of the British empire straddling the world. Now, you being
forthright Americans, y