Re: OT: Canada Agrees to be Missile Target

In article <Xns964C23BCDA4Djyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jim Yanik <jyanik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>kensmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ken Smith) wrote in
>news:d5981h$n23$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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>> In article <Xns964BD191631CDjyanikkuanet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Jim Yanik <jyanik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>And then we left and they governed themselves.
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>> So, the US is finally pulling out of Texas. I'm glad to hear it.
>
>Didn't Texas vote to join the US?

Texas was taken away from Mexico by force of arms.

>> Chile and Mexico make two examples to disprove your claim.
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>We do not rule either of those countries.
>Could you elucidate on Chile?

Texas was part of Mexico. It was taken away in a war. The US is still
there.

Chile certainly wasn't done in the interests of the people who lived
there. The US aided in the overthrow of a popular government and its
replacement with a murderous one because an american fruit company was
threatened.

Now, can you suggest two places where the US sent in troops for the good
of the people living there? I suggest two because I can think of one
where it could be claimed if you stretch a point. You suggested this was
always the case, so you should have a large number of examples.



>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.

The US took land by force of arms to create the canal. It was done for US
interests not the good of the people who lived there. It is another
example that disproves your suggestion. BTW: Since we can't run the
history both ways, we will never know what the locals would have done
without the canal.

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

Why would you be surprised? With so many other examples I don't feel the
need to?

BTW: Falling dominos was the reason not anything to do with the good of
the locals.


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