Bullshit on Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny was outmoded when the US was busy annexing half of Mexico?
That would be news to Mexico. And news a couple of decades later to Canada when it joined together for mutual defence in 1867 against the threats of the same happening to it. Threats delivered by William Seward who in the same time frame (1866) pusued the same end more peacefully by buying Alaska.
Some historical curiousity. Flavouring US actions decades after it was "discredited", and driving politics across the rest of the continent
This history of US relations with its neighbours resembles the relationship between a neighbourhood bully and his past targets. The bully doesn't like to admit that he was a bully, and constantly pretends surprise when past targets of his abuse are resentful about it.
Regards,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]