Manifest Destiny

[HiredGoon]

I doubt the U.S. would give up the most economically and agriculturally important state in the Union. America would only be a shadow of its current self without California.

P.S. regarding the comments about American capitalism; American capitalism was inherited directly from England from the very foundation of the colonies. And the industrial revolution which really fueled the incredible growth of capitalism in the 19th century, began in England.

 

[mostly_harmless]

Name one country that the US has occupied that they have not returned.

Are you kidding? The USA annexed almost an entire continent. Beyond that the USA is basically exercising a modern version of imperialism, they get into a country, remake it in their own image and pull out again. This has its good points and its bad points...

 

[kurabrhm]

Are you kidding? The USA annexed almost an entire continent. Beyond that the USA is basically exercising a modern version of imperialism, they get into a country, remake it in their own image and pull out again. This has its good points and its bad points...

The thing about the Middle East is that unlike Africa much of Asia, which were colonised by the well to do European imperialists like France, Britain and Spain, the Middle East were much more influenced by the Ottoman and Russian empire. But when the Russians and Ottomans left, there was a vaccum which the British tried to fill for a brief period, and failed!
In the post cold war years, the US has tried to again fill that vaccum, a very very old vaccum, and it would seem that the Americans are not really getting anywhere either!