Note: I am presently trying to determine if this is an appropriate article to send out to my readership. I would appreciate your thoughts on the matter. Thank you! I believe many of the largest failures of the U.S. empire have arisen as a consequence of our foreign policy. In many other empires such as the British Empire, subjects were required to live in a colony for years before they could assume an administrative role over the colony, whereas the U.S. has held a long-standing perspective that American diplomats should not immerse themselves within another culture as they might get corrupted by it, "