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Originally Posted by Big Sarge
How long did we occupy the Phillipines, Germany, and Japan?? Did we leave because they told us to go? Also, I believe strongly we should have seized the oil to pay our debts.
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I don't know anything much about the Philipines, but as far as I am aware America went to war with Germany and Japan because of an attack on American territory.
Iraq was supposedly 'liberated' from an oppressive dictator. Time and again we were told that we were not at war with the Iraqi people. So why are we now talking in terms of winners and losers, defeated and victorious?
Not leaving until you decide, regardless of the desires of the nation you are occupying sounds a lot like imperialism to me.