Sure, if Jonathan Swift lived today, his "Gulliver" wouldn`t be such a pesimistic book :p
Many things have changed in the last one hundred years, but empires are still empires, and invasions are still invasions, just as ever. And when a country invades another, his goals are as evil and inmoral as they were one hundred years ago. I can`t understand why American imperialistic policies were wrong in the XIX century (Hawaii, Philippines, and that) while in the XXI they are aparently great.
Just as expected, big corporations are now haunting Irak like vultures around a carrion; a former general and current manager of a weapon company is now the governor of the country. And even before food supplies reach the locals, oil pits have begun to pump crude at a rate which is falling the prizes.
Don`t ask me to explain why is THIS imperialistic, Wolf: just read the former twelve screens of this thread, where the reasons are explained. If you don`t understand it yet, I can`t add a iot.
By the way, a nice overwiew on American imperialism in the XXth century:
http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/library/wonderful/index.php