The truth is it was blinded by a conviction in its neo-imperial omnipotence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War] Reference

Despite being born to neo-imperial destiny, he was already running away from the Circus Maximus.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Made the Refrains Run on Time] Reference

This entire paragraph is an excellent symbol for the entire project of the neo-imperial American Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

I mean, it's behaving like a-- you know, like an authoritarian, almost proto-fascist or neo-imperial nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2008] Reference

The sunny neoconservatives whose goal has been to become the neo-imperial Middle Eastern power all along will forcast few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Hart: The October Surprise] Reference

America is not yet ready to give up its neo-imperial role unless forced to -- as was its predecessor, the British Empire -- by economic collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: 2009: Another Year of Living Dangerously] Reference

It is galling for Western media to take such delight in exposing China's dirty linen, as it slavishly hails US neo-imperial ventures in Iraq and Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uighur vs Afghan: A study in contrasts] Reference

Whether a consistent and comprehensive foreign policy, no longer intoxicated by ideological or neo-imperial fantasy, will emerge from this change of attitude is far from clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Angry Man] Reference

The small and medium-size countries without ambitions to a neo-imperial role and whose strength is their moral integrity are best placed to open dialogue among the parties in a conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [José Ramos-Horta - Nobel Lecture] Reference

We cannot conceive ofthe calamity that could have loomed withtheconfluence of overarching ambition, consuming religious belief, a profound incurious ignorance and neo-imperial power in the same hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Conservatives Dumping Sarah Palin and Throwing Her UNDER the Bus?] Reference

I've already mentioned Kosovo, however, I would be willing to bet that if Britain did decide to intervene in say Zimbabwe it would not be long after we did so that those who called for it would be condemning it as neo-imperial adventurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

China's neo-imperial swagger need not mean a new cold war | Yuriko Koike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The truth is that it was blinded by a belief in its neo-imperial omnipotence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference

Imperialism - and the EU is a neo-imperial entity - caused Europe's two world wars, not nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slugger O'Toole] Reference

They also seem primed for maximal neo-imperial reach, backing the nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, favoring war against Iran, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

French military adventures in Africa fail to impress me, and are part and parcel of France's neo-imperial ambitions. marcfrans on Mon, 2009-10-19 17: 48.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

Decades of neoliberal "adjustment" and neo-imperial intervention have robbed its government of any significant capacity to invest in its people or to regulate its economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Dr Mahathir scoffed at any accusation of Beijing's neo-imperial or hegemonic intentions, putting it squarely in the bull's eye of his vision for East Asian economic integration.    From Wordnik.com.  [nst online] Reference

Andy McCarthy is rather forthright in lamenting the collapse of our neo-imperial designs in Iraq in a piece discussing the SOFA / Framework Agreement that is now on the fast track to ratification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obsidian Wings] Reference

To me, it says: can we release this new 'spirit of service', a new "pleasure" and "willingness" to be active and creative citizens, from the bloodied uniform of neo-imperial control that it currently wears?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Play Ethic] Reference

Inter Press Service correspondent Gareth Porter, among others, has stressed this is the final nail in the coffin of the neo-conservative, neo-imperial dream of having Iraq at the Middle East center of an empire of bases.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Despite all of this, as Nord Stream construction demonstrates, Putin and Co. are clearly determined to pay any price to maintain their oil-and-gas-supply trump as the only promising instrument of Russia's neo-imperial ambitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference

For critics, the current enthusiasm reflects a fundamental overestimation of the efficacy of military force, and a desire for technocratic solutions to strategic problems that presume a neo-imperial nation-building role for the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference

The Kremlin's neo-imperial foreign policy, its persistent designs over Eurasian energy and its ongoing efforts to oust Western influence from the "post-Soviet space" are all guaranteed to preoccupy policymakers in Washington in the years ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

(As I've blogged quite a few times in recent months, the continuing NATO "mission" in Afghanistan is one that's particularly ill-suited to NATO's capabilities, and may well bring about the dissolution of the alliance in its present, neo-imperial form.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlottesville Blogs] Reference

Cole reacted to the proposed bet with disgust - calling it symbolic of "the neo-imperial American Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Cohen: Jonah Goldberg's Gambling Debt: Will Tribune Company Pay It?] Reference

Cole reacted to the proposed bet with disgust -- calling it symbolic of "the neo-imperial American Right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonah Goldberg's Gambling Debt: Will Tribune Company Pay It?] Reference

Moscow’s pursuit of neo-imperial policies towards Georgia and Ukraine has left no alternative to those countries but to seek NATO membership.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATO Enlargement and Russia���s 'Security Concerns'] Reference

By breaking a potential monopoly of GOP executive power we might prevent or at least forstall this nation’s march towards totalitarianism under neo-imperial Executive.    From Wordnik.com.  [61 Nobel Laureates can’t be wrong] Reference

“By breaking a potential monopoly of GOP executive power we might prevent or at least forestall this nation’s march towards totalitarianism under neo-imperial Executive.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [61 Nobel Laureates can’t be wrong] Reference

I don’t buy into the blood for oil although I have been silly enough to do so in the past argument or neo-imperial hegemonic rhetoric from the left, but neither do I think this is all altruistic humanitarianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Schadenfreude Of The Left On Afghanistan « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

I notice that at the end Sullivan writes, "we will never win unless we devote far more resources and many more decades to neo-imperial control than America can afford and than the American and British publics will tolerate.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Quigg: Obama "Can No More Disown (McChrystal) Than I Can My White Grandmother"] Reference