I'll take your word for it, I don't know the history, but who started it is unimportant the war was an imperialist one for both sides.

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There's hope for you yet.

Well, I don't know about trading equally but certainly trading freely. If China makes a better product than Uzbekistan, the United States should buy that product from China. As for foreign aid, I'm opposed to governments doing foreign aid. Leave it up to the private aid agencies, the corporations, and private citizens willing to send money or supplies or themselves.

Agreed: non-interventionism is not isolationism.

Well, I don't agree with you regarding Kyoto since the economic impact would be devastating especially for third world countries. Again, we should trade freely and let the marketplace do what it does.

I'd like the US to pull out of the UN because it has become an entanglement. Since I don't believe in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, there is no need for UN peacekeepers.

So we pull out and let them do whatever they're going to do.

We were the gracious winner at the end of World War II when we re-built Germany and Japan. But, since I don't believe in interfering in the internal affairs of other nations...

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"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Wars should be continued until they end either in a winner or in a mutual agreement to end it. It could have been worse: we could have taken posession of Spain as well.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

More like the young upstart (America) taking on the king of the hill (Spain).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

That's presumably debateable, whether or not you had the power too, but regardless do you deny it was anything other than an imperialist venture?

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Who started it is subject to debate. When I was in school we learned about how Spain started it but a little deeper digging suggests that the United States may have started it from behind the scenes.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

This is late 19th century, I think then you'll find that Britain was the king of the hill.

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The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
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Can I suggest a thread on the Spanish American war?

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If Spain started it then it's imperialism (since Spain was an empire). If the U. S. started it then it wasn't imperialism (because the U. S. wasn't an empire).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Sorry Donkey.

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There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg