Re: OT: Canada Agrees to be Missile Target

kensmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ken Smith) wrote in
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> In article <Xns964BD191631CDjyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Jim Yanik <jyanik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
>>And then we left and they governed themselves.
>
> So, the US is finally pulling out of Texas. I'm glad to hear it.

Didn't Texas vote to join the US?
>
>>> Americans by their nature are not a war loving people but the list of
>>> countries the US has attacked is quite a long one.
>>
>>All in support of securing their freedom,not for conquest or to rule
>>them,as Rome did.
>
> Chile and Mexico make two examples to disprove your claim.

We do not rule either of those countries.
Could you elucidate on Chile?


>
> Do you how the country of Panama got formed?

IIRC,the creation of the Panama Canal.We don't rule that country either.
Not even the Canal Zone anymore.I'm sure they have been and are far better
off than if the US had never made the Canal,or ignored them.

>
> Rome had the problem that it took a long time to get somewhere to have a
> war.

And yet they still managed.

> Modern technology has removed that need. You can now bomb someone
> on the other side of the world if they don't do as they are told.


I'm surprised you haven't brought up Vietnam.

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