Arguments Against Imperialism

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I do not support the foreign policy of Imperialism. I think that imperialism causes conflicts between countries.Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League wrote that “We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free”.They are trying to say that if a country takes over another country that is going to cause racism and people are going to take advantages of people and things because they took over their land and government so we have more power than them. Which means that we can make them do our work for free, in other words make them slaves. Abraham Lincoln once said that “no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s

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