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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla
Sorry, TG, but that is ill-considered.
By comparison with actual, permanent empire building, horseplay is exactly what interventions in protection of US interests from things like expropriation by local-dictator men on horseback was. We'd go in, sort the matter more or less well, and then we'd take off. Look up how many times that happened -- it's a political act typical of Gap states.
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That is not the action of builders of empires, and that is very much our actions for those hundred and thirty years.
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Tell it to Smedley Butler. He had a thing or two to say on the subject, and he has a bit more credibility than you.
And we didn't stay in Hawaii? What?