[Foundation-l] Reply to Mark

[Nathan]

Sure, but all that other territory that eventually became states was
unoccupied anyway, right? :P Sort of skidding off topic here, aren't we?

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3/1/08, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > geni wrote:
> > > On 01/03/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> What? Since when did America ever speak for any colonies? It was a
> > >> colony, it was never a colonial power...
> > >>
> > > Puerto Rico? Various former Spannish colonies acquired at one point?
> > The Monroe Doctrine was a neo-colonial instrument. Helping Panama to
> > break away from Colombia. Periodic invasions and skullduggery in small
> > countries when the U.S. didn't like the government, as in the Arbenz
> > assassination in Guatemala. The continuing hostile attitude towards
> > Cuba and Venezuela because those countries put their own people first.
> > Maintaining armed occupation is an expensive way of keeping colonies, so
> > they had to find different ways of doing it.
> >
> > Some might even say that Tony Blair's easy compliance in the invasion of
> > Iraq showed that the colonial master role had been reversed. :-)
> >
> > Ec
>
> Lessee, how many states were there in the compact during the articles of
> confederation? Never acquired any territories, no-no (won't go to
> rehab, no-no...)
>
>
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>
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