As a major world power of the world today, if not the top power of the world, the United States has influences that stretch much further than the immediate borders of the mainland. The US holds many foreign interests in 3rd world countries around the globe and continues to spread its growing influence to numerous other countries. The US has become so powerful and influential so to have started being called a true empire, comparative to that of the Romans and the British. But is this new age of imperialism for the United States misleading? Are there underlying reasons as to why we may be trying to cultivate our interests in foreign countries? What are the different variables that factor into the US moving into a country and taking it over? Should the United States even be taking on this notion of imperialism, or will it ultimately end...