imperialistic?

"We don't seek empires. We're not imperialistic. We never have been. I can't imagine why you'd even ask the question."

rumsfeld to an al-jazeera reporter, when questioned about imperialist ambitions.

u.s. military presence world-wide:

Afghanistan Albania Algeria Antigua Argentina Azerbaijan Australia Austria
Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burma Burundi
Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chad Chile China Columbia Congo Costa Rica Cote D'lvoire Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic
Denmark Djibouti Dominican Republic
East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia
Fiji Finland France
Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea
Haiti Honduras Hungary
Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Israel Italy
Jamaica Jordan Jamaica Japan
Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan
Laos Latvia Lebanon Liberia Lithuania Luxembourg
Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Mali Malaysia Malta Mexico Mongolia Morocco Mozambique
Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway
Oman
Pakistan Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal
Qatar
Romania Russia
Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Singapore Sierra Leone Slovenia Spain South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Suriname Syria Sweden Switzerland
Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan
Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay
Venezuela Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia Zimbabwe

roughly 75% of the globe. so...