QUOTE(Mp)Marine @ Oct 19 2006, 02:20 PM)
America will control the border between North Korea and China which will cause them both to fight America. Japan will then come into play and same with South Korea and they'll be with the Americans. Soon after, Iran will join the Chinese and North Korea will bomb Afghanistan where the entire army of the US and most Britains army is. Britain will then join America and the EU will join with them. Egypt will join China and such and same with Russia. In essence, a true global war that may leave an extremely huge nation into rubble.
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very misinformed post.
I wanted to just say 'lol' but thought that would be spamming.
Your post puts global politics into oversimplified, black and white terms which are wrong anyway. It astounds me that you think of the EU as an entity that would go to war as 'the EU.' The fact of the matter is that the EU is a collection of sovereign nations which share certain domestic policies, operate a free market together and argue over a great many things. You also seem to class Britain as being separate from the EU when it is actually a part of it (though there are some who would wish that wasn't the case). There seems to be an obvious 'Commie vs. Democracy' mindset operating with you, which is outdated to say the least.
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QUOTE(Desperado @ Oct 12 2006, 05:12 AM)
Manifest destiny was not imperialism. Imperialism means you take COLONIES where the people there do not have full citizenship. The only thing even remotely close to a colony the United States ever took was the Phillipines and we decided we didn't want that.
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If not Imperialist then at the very least aggressively expansionist. What right did the colonists have to expand beyond their original borders? Weren't the lands beyond their borders settled by native tribes? Was subjugating and almost exterminating them (an idea much beloved by the US Army in the mid to late 1800s) not imperialist? Remember that Native Americans did not get full rights of citizenship until 1924, and even then it was not
de facto.
Taking overseas colonies is, perhaps unsurprisingly, colonialism, which is one form of imperialism. Having a land-based empire is another form - think of the Austro-Hungarian Empire or German Reich.
Despite all its preaching against imperialism, the US has a very poor record when it comes to equal citizenship and the like. In fact, there is perhaps evidence to suggest that the US effectively forced decolonisation on the European powers in order to consolidate their own position. American history books tend to conveniently 'overlook' these things. Surely you don't take everything you read as the truth? Just because it isn't Mein Kampf doesn't mean the author's opinion isn't reflected in his work.