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The Peter Principle of national expansion
Three imperial turning points: 1803: The United States purchases the vast Louisiana territory from France, assuring America’s future as a continent-sized, independent nation from sea to sea. 1903: The United States supports the secession of Panama from Colombia and gains the right to build the Panama Canal, providing swiftness of travel and commerce and assuring effective U.S. control over the Western hemisphere, free from interference by outside powers. 2003: The United States, after invading Iraq for legitimate purposes of national defense, turns the Iraq occupation into a futile and wasteful quest to democratize the Moslem world under U.S. leadership.
The first two imperial turning points built up America in good and legitimate ways. The third is ruinous to America. Email entry |