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Old 08-05-2010, 09:47 AM
 
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What's an invador?
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Old 08-05-2010, 10:32 AM
 
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Well, we're really the only country that invades and doesn't stay and hand out a bill. England invaded India stayed over 100 years as an example.
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Old 08-05-2010, 10:34 AM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Really, where is the truth?
Everything we do militarily since the end of the cold war is to keep us on top of the world garbage heap and keep potential challengers from climbing high enough to become an actual threat to our dominance. We are not invaders necessarily because we don't stay indefinitely and declare invaded countries to be a new part of our our own (although we obviously have no qualms about looting a country for resources), but we certainly aren't peacekeepers either. If we were, we'd have gone into Darfur, Rwanda, East Timor and a dozen other countries where horrible, evil acts have been perpetrated but otherwise had no strategic purpose for us being there. As it stands, we only went into the countries that served the overiding purpose of keeping the status quo as it is.
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Old 08-05-2010, 10:48 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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Everyone hates on the US until they need their A$$es bailed out.
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Old 08-05-2010, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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I'm glad people like you are not in power. If you were, the USA probably would have surrendered to the British during the Revolution or the Mexicans in the Mexican American War.
You see America's greatness in it's imperialism and territorial acquisitions. It has a history of killing anyone who opposes it, either directly, as happened in what is now the United States, or indirectly, as it has done all over the world, usually providing the weapons and training.

The British would have lost to anyone who was able to resist imperialism. The Mexicans lost Texas, California and parts of the Southwest even before all of the Native Americans were finished being killed off or rounded up and put in concentration camps.
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Old 08-05-2010, 02:53 PM
 
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You see America's greatness in it's imperialism and territorial acquisitions.
Yes, I do. I am a student of history. History tells us that either you conquer or be conquered. I want my country to be the conqueror.
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Old 08-05-2010, 02:57 PM
 
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Everyone hates on the US until they need their A$$es bailed out.
"Yankee go home.................................and take me with you." lol
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Old 08-05-2010, 03:02 PM
 
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Yes, I do. I am a student of history. History tells us that either you conquer or be conquered. I want my country to be the conqueror.
You're a poor student of history if you don't recognize that empires that overextend themselves with costly and unnecessary wars almost always end up collapsing.
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Old 08-05-2010, 03:04 PM
 
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I'm glad people like you are not in power.
Unfortunately the people who are in power at the moment have similar views.
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Old 08-05-2010, 03:07 PM
 
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You're a poor student of history if you don't recognize that empires that overextend themselves with costly and unnecessary wars almost always end up collapsing.
The US is engaged in just two small regional wars right now and providing security for South Korea. That is hardly what I would describe an over-extension. If the US wages another two front war in Europe and in the Pacific, then I would start to be worried.
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