The American Empire

There is such a thing as the Global Economy based upon the notion of Capitalism and Free Trade. This was the notion that the USA launched after WW2 begining with the Marshall Plan. One may call it the American Empire. In that empire the United State is merely one part of it. The US government no longer serves only the interests of the people who live in the United States but that of the whole American Empire. Who has been the greatest benficiary of that empire to date, but the American people, for they have lived higher, longer and in greater numbers than ever before in the history of human civilization.