Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<Our cuba policy has been trying for regime change for almost fifty years. Success at last! >>> Wow, the guy dies or gets so old he "retires" (where is he really anyway?) and you yell "success"? Uh huh.... Gee let's leave the Middle East tomorrow. I wonder how long it will take for those folks to come around? But in the name of diplomacy!!! we shall succeed. Oh brother.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<52nd unless we bypass Puerto Rico.>>> Now here's a interesting comment ^ ^ ^ We aren't passing on anyone. PR does NOT WANT to be a state. They get most of the perks of the states while maintaining independance. Cuba will never be a state of the USA in much the same why that Mexico will never be a state.
Originally Posted By jonvn Thanks for the Rhode Island history. Personally, I can't get enough of it.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<If our country is really all that great, why aren't other new "states" lining up to join?>>> Don't take this personally, but this is among the most offensive posts I have read on LP. I hope I'm just missing the sarcasim there. Anyway, just who would you have "join up" and why? For that matter, why don't we join the Canadians and unite as one nation, scrap our own government and way of life and jsut extend the borders of Canada down to the Rio Grande? I mean....if Canada is so much "better"? I know you didn't say that, but your statement lends itself to that sort of thinking. Each nation, on its own, doing its "thing"...no one nation is going to "line up" to obtain statehood from the US. It doesn't work that way. Ask the Puerto Ricians.
Originally Posted By jonvn "jsut extend the borders of Canada down to the Rio Grande?" Not a bad idea, if it would get rid of the idiots we have running this country. So, after WWII, there was a lot of talk of making Sicily a state, too. That never panned out. But we were seriously considering it.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << Anyway, just who would you have "join up" and why? For that matter, why don't we join the Canadians and unite as one nation, scrap our own government and way of life and jsut extend the borders of Canada down to the Rio Grande? I mean....if Canada is so much "better"? I know you didn't say that, but your statement lends itself to that sort of thinking. >> I don't see any reason why Canada and the U.S. couldn't unify. I think our Founding Fathers really tried to hard to create a government based on enlightenment principles that was designed to be a beacon to the world. It should invite the idea of other nations joining together under the same sort of arrangement and principles. The fact that we haven't seen that tells me that we are headed down the path of nationalism that has failed every government since the dawn of time. The ideas that created America shouldn't be constrained by geography, and if we really practiced them, there would be demand from other parts of the world to join among the states we have now. Too late for that, though. We have become too narrow minded and self-serving for that sort of view.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Thanks for the Rhode Island history. Personally, I can't get enough of it.<< LOL! I may have to start adding JUST KIDDING whenever I post in jest. Or being funny.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 When you start doing that, let us know. <ducks quick!> (Sorry - you're the funniest poster here, but you left a mack-truck-sized opening there...)
