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To: energyplay who wrote (61952)4/14/2005 8:21:47 AM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Energyplay, Thats quite a list. But when it comes to other countries, all the European powers with colonies built whole classes of warships for "colonial service" and these vessels generally were on foreign station their whole service life, usually for decades and staffed with marines and ready for action. Action included showing the flag and scaring the natives with bombardments and other military demonstrations.

If Raymond put together a list that included ever single event involving the landing of marines by these Europeans to put down a colonial rebellion somewhere the list would be hundreds of pages long and would make his list of US foreign incursions look tiny by comparison.

If you comprised a list that included every single foreign military action by the Europeans you would have a list of many tens of thousands of individual events, and many of them quite bloody.

Much of this was very necessary as this kept order in the world, supressed piracy and made modern civilization possible. Since WWII more and more of this burden has been assumed to the US. Thats why we should have encouraged the Europeans to keep their colonies, rather than demanding that they give them up, as was the policy of the New Dealers.
Slagle
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