The other provocatively suggests that the concept of empire has an undeservedly bad reputation and, further, the world could do a lot worse than having to live under a putative American empire.

• 另一观点则发人深省地指称，帝国的概念不应该如此受到百般责难，事实上这个世界若不用活在所谓美国帝国统治之下，情况可能更为糟糕。