"Nonymous" > wrote in message
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> "Robert" > wrote in message
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> > "usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> > > Robert ranted:
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> > > >>Mexico and Central America, though we have illegal immigrants from
all
> > > >>over the world.
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> > > > That's why we are called "Americans". We claim the continenent of
> North
> > > > America, Central America and South America, which we shorten it to
us
> > > > Americans.
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> > > Canadians don't call themselves Americans very much, nor do people
south
> > > of our border. BTW, the US has no claim on Central or South America,
and
> > > most of North America is comprised of Mexico and Canada. Go figure.
> >
> > Ever heard of the Monroe Doctrine in which the US said exactly that. It
> has
> > the right to do what ever it wants in the Americas.
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> No, the Monroe Doctrine declared that the Americas were no longer open to
> European colonization and that any further attempts by Europeans to
colonize
> or politically influence the Americas may be considered hostile by the
U.S.

They have used that argument in every country that has leftist leanings.
They threatened invasion because of communist influence and thus USSR
influence. In short leftist meant "foreign influence" and thus the US gave
it itself the right based on that doctrine to mess with every countries
internal political affairs. The CIA in Chile and military actions in
Nicaragua. We train every military from the Americas here so we can keep an
eye on them. It is justified by us historically through the Monroe Doctrine.
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> I think you're mean the concept of Manifest Destiny.
That is the actual taking of the land but colonization concepts are always
there to preserve US interest in the Americas and throughout the world.
Columbus discovered America and claimed it for Spain. He landed in the
Dominican Republic and that country speaks Spanish as most of the Americas.
There was Spanish influence for centuries and it was through a War in
California and in the southwest in which a treaty was signed. The treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo in which all mexican citizens living in the southwest were
granted all the benefits and rights of newly gained of US citizenship. They
were the first mexicans granted amnesty and all illegals since then have
followed.
At that time the racist views caused the lynching and complete land grabbing
of legally owned land by the previous mexican landowners. This was
Manifest Destiny and every country in the world does not underestimate the
will of Americans when they want something.
You have the only country in the whole world that has ever used a nuclear
weapon on another country killing women, children, and everything,
threatening other countries not to develop nuclear weapons. We invade
countries because of a percieved threat to develop a weapon and we do this
without UN approval or anybody elses. Is this a great country or what?

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