07-10-2008, 10:00 PM | #11 |
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07-10-2008, 10:02 PM | #12 | |
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Imperialism American Style: Drain the wealth of the homeland to prop up the conquered countries. At least the Romans and other great Empires of the past were smart enough to drain the wealth out of those they conquered to temporarily build their homeland. Somehow we got it backwards.
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