Quote Originally Posted by Bijo
Civilizations cause war, because civilizations clash with each other. We could call it a society as well.
I don't necessarily agree with this statement. War is a continution of foreign policy to gain something from a competing nation state. War is not necessarily based upon civilizations clashing with each other. When I review parts of Chinese and European history - many wars were fought not because of civilizations conflicts but conflicts from within the society itself.

The basic point I made was that Europe is now civilized, as they maintain peace, not war. And now -- in the modern time -- the US is not maintaining peace, but war, basically doing what Europe was doing BACK THEN: IMPERIALISM. Therefore they are less civilized, and hence the speculation that their nation will be more civilized -- like Europe -- when they have fought enough wars, especially on their own soil if it comes to that and will finally start maintaining peace.
So Bosnia and Kosovo was Imperialism?
Desert Storm - or the first gulf war was Imperialism?
Somalia was Imperialism?

Are you attempting to state using force is Imperialism?

If your attempting to state that then you are in conflict with your own premise. Now the United States has been engaged in Imperialism in the past, and might even be doing so now, but claiming Imperialism because a nation is in a state of war, does not equate to Imperialism.