An Empire, If You Can Bear It

OPINIONSrnAn Empire^ If You Can Bear Itrnby Justin Raimondorn'The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation."rn—William McKinleyrnBlowback: The Costs andrnConsequences of American Empirernby Chalmers JohnsonrnNew York: MetropoUtan Books;rn268 pp., $26.00rnI n his classic shidy of "isolationism,"rnNot to the Swift, Justus Doeneckerntakes . . .