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I will indirectly answer your question by commenting on the answer of SKIP742.

Old SKIP742 obviously skipped his reality and truth course in the elementary school he is attending.

First he claims that the US never desired to be hegemonic.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/unitedstates/unpolicy/...

http://english.people.com.cn/english/200102/22/eng...

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=11422

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3114

There we go SKIP,educate yourself.

Further SKIP this is just a very short list of the horrid atrocities that the US has and continues to perpetrate all around the world in order TO MAINTAIN THEIR HEGEMONY.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_terr.html

Now Skip,what was all that CRAP about the US not desiring/seeking world hegemony?? Could have fooled me and everyone else in the world but perhaps you in that "mind" of yours,knows something the rest of do not.

Also Skippy,(I hope you do not mind me calling you SKIPPY ,is this list of friggin ATROCITIES YOUR CONCEPTION OF SPREADING POSITIVE THINGS AROUND THE WORLD ?????

Well,maybe when China is the sole superpower excercizing it's hegemony and destroys YOUR democratic government

and abrogates all your freedoms ,rights and liberty (like THE US has done in at least 14 countries since 1953 from IRan in 1953 to Chile in 1973 ) and replaces it with a ruthless dictator ,then maybe you will understand just how stupid and ignorant your response was.

This URL is of note for it contends that US hegemony is indeed slipping away.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?...

America never desired a "hegemonic status". There may be some American politicians who desire to use hegemony, but that's not at the heart of America.

Basically, America isn't seeking hegemony. America, as a people, only seeks to influence the world with those positive ideas that the world finds valuable. So, your question doesn't matter to most of us.

Fast Eddie is your typical ignoramus that will unwittingly bring fascism down on this country.

More education is not a bad thing.

Not without a fight!

Ha. This makes me laugh.

There is too much at stake for those involved to ever allow that to happen!

"Hegemonic"?!? I just love it when wacky far-left wingers use fifty-years-out-of-date Soviet and Chicom propaganda terms.

I bet that was one fantastically expensive education that mommy and daddy paid for, huh? You know, so that you could go to one of those fancy far-left wing universities where you could learn such useful phrases as "hegemonic"?

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No not at all!~!