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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (80704)3/9/2003 1:56:27 PM
From: marcos  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
'the people who hate this country the most live here'

Or do in many cases the people to whom you refer love 'this country' and this species and this planet more effectively and intelligently than those for whom the first recourse is invariably the compulsion of the bayonet? .... truly i do rather suspect that such a proposition could be argued, perhaps by a Daniel/Steven Webster/Rogers -

' American imperialist impulses may have first been sated when President Thomas Jefferson nearly doubled the size of the nation by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon. New ambitions for Canadian territory voiced by the "War Hawks" in Congress were blunted by the war of 1812. By 1845, however, John O'Sullivan's call in the Democratic Review for America to follow its "manifest destiny" resonated through the newly victorious Democratic Party. It was a crucial moment in American history. If the march west could be stopped, questions of land use and the spread of slavery might be more easily resolved, California might become an independent nation, the Civil War might be avoided. President James Knox Polk favored a war of expansion, the first the
United States was to fight primarily on foreign soil, and the first to receive extensive media coverage. However, his ambition did not go unchallenged. The banner of anti-imperialism was raised by the Whig Party and vociferously championed by one of its most venerable leaders, Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, who made the core of his appeal an attack on the war policy of the President.'

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