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vincentML -> RE: Forget it, America will never be great again (1/25/2017 7:51:57 AM)
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1893 Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy
On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president. The coup occurred with the foreknowledge of John L. Stevens, the U.S. minister to Hawaii, and 300 U.S. Marines from the U.S. cruiser Boston were called to Hawaii, allegedly to protect American lives.
I wonder who would have taken the island, if we hadn't. The Japanese? The Russians? The British?
It was the way of the world back then. Either allow your enemies to lay claim to everything, or claim it yourself as a means of defense. To try to claim that we are better or worse than others for being exactly like everyone else makes little sense. Even the islanders, natives everywhere, had their wars. Fought for domination against their neighbors
Well, yeah, but that has been our claim since Woodrow Wilson decried imperialism. Granted, what we said and what we did were two different things. That brings up another interesting issue. The core issue that sparked both great wars of the 20th Century was imperialistic ambition. Some nations were advancing theirs and others were defending theirs. Soooo , , , , how were they righteous wars? And did young men not die in vain?
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