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To: stsimon who wrote (298703)5/6/2016 8:46:45 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 540750
 
The US Marines were formed to protect American merchant ships abroad. So tax payers' funds were used from the very beginning to protect big financiers. The "small" government would have expected the merchants to hire their own security. Incidentally, that decision had far deeper impact than anything else on US foreign policy.