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From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More double standards
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 21:55:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 21:55:18 1985
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> >
> >Have you ever wondered how the Soviet Union came to be the largest country
> >in the world?  How about expansionism?  Aggression?  They've  built up their
> >empire for the past 700 years.

Substitute 'Russia' for 'Soviet Union' and you are absolutely correct.  One
should note that the U.S., and our predesessor the colonies, have been
expanding through conquest for about 300 years.  In fact, the U.S. conquest
of North America and destruction of the original inhabitance closely
parallels the Russian conquest of Siberia.  Much of North America was
'purchased' from various European powers, but it was still necessary to
eliminate the inhabitants.