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Posted by: ZiIch
Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
Posted by: ZiIch
Posted by: MilitaryTheorist
I'm talking about in a modern sense, not a historical one. America's expansionist campaigns stopped long ago. However, I will concede that our states were the subject of imperialism.
We're not the same country we were during those types on conquests, but I'm not sure how you can claim a country is no longer an empire when you freely admit the vast majority of their territory came from imperialistic expansion.
Because those territories, such as Guam and Puerto Rico, have been given ample chances to leave from the Union. That's not a empire, bro, where territories are forced to stay and are subjected to unfair economic and political treatment.
You did not say Guam and Puerto Rico. You clearly said states.
And as I recall, states did try to leave one time. And secession is illegal.
Territories had and have the right to choose to be in or out of the Union. Guam and Puerto Rico have voted time and time again, that they want to stay territories, in fact recently, Puerto Pico voted to become a state. But if you become a state, it's pretty much a life proposition.
[Edited on 12.29.2012 1:42 PM PST]