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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (71484)	3/4/2011 8:14:09 PM
From: TobagoJack	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217548

no need to convince anyone except the facts, that be one, that china had been continuously invaded for the immediately 200 years prior to the events you noted, and i think the fact speaks for itself, no? also, within the time span you spoke, both ussr and usa as well as britain had prepared to nuke china. for nations to use action nuking program, per their cultural imperative, against those without nukes and minding own biz speaks much for self-defense, especially for a civilization state

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (71484)	3/5/2011 12:47:21 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217548

Well, I certainly learned something from your post. I had thought that Kipling wrote "Recessional" for the British, but it seems he did another version aimed at Americans. Incidentally, both Kipling and T. Roosevelt lost sons in the First World War and were somewhat baffled that these young men died instead of returning as heroes. historymatters.gmu.edu “The White Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism In February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to take up the “burden” of empire, as had Britain and other European nations. Published in the February, 1899 issue of McClure’s Magazine, the poem coincided with the beginning of the Philippine-American War and U.S. Senate ratification of the treaty that placed Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba, and the Philippines under American control. Theodore Roosevelt, soon to become vice-president and then president, copied the poem and sent it to his friend, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, commenting that it was “rather poor poetry, but good sense from the expansion point of view.” Not everyone was as favorably impressed as Roosevelt. The racialized notion of the “White Man’s burden” became a euphemism for imperialism, and many anti-imperialists couched their opposition in reaction to the phrase.