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Originally posted by eatapeach@Aug 22 2004, 04:54 PM
"How is that any different than the westward expansion that preceded the 20th century?"
it's not necessarily different, but at best the argument could be made that the contiguous land-mass and lack of recognized "sovereign nations" was different than going a third of the way around the world to overtake countries to set up military bases for forward deployment.
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If that's the "at best" argument it's not a very good one. Mexico was certainly a sovereign nation when the US invaded them and took California, Arizona and New Mexico in 1848.