They are savage, fight without honour, and want nothing more than to eradicate the Empire, root and branch.

他们野蛮，毫无荣誉感，一心只要将帝国连根带叶子铲除。

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America, the proponents of imperialism argued, would acquire an overseas empire of its own, and through careful administration and the defeat of backward, or "savage, " resistance movements, lay the basis for the spread of liberty and democracy throughout the world.

NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism