Re: Three Space What-ifs, a common theme

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:32:43 -0500, Scott Hedrick wrote:

"Fevric J Glandules" <fevric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:26:34 -0400, Scott Hedrick wrote:

[Soviets]

Understand that they considered the entire world their territory- just
some parts were unaware

Whereas the US limits itself to Central and South America, and anywhere
that's got oil.

Where in those areas does the US consider to be US territory, other than
perhaps Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands?

All of it? Is there anywhere in central and south America that hasn't
at some point been invaded, or had a dictatorship shored up, or a bunch
of terrorists given arms and money? [1]

As has been claimed and been shown in error repeatedly, the United States is
not now and never has been in the empire-building business, at least not
outside North America. If that were true, then the United States would not
have given up territory unnecessarily, such as the Phillipines, Cuba, Haiti
and the Panama Canal Zone.

I'm glad you mentioned Panama, cos it saves me having to bring it up.

[1] I expect there is, but the point is that I can actually ask the
question.

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