>>> The answer ofcourse is plain simple: dont go to war!
>>> and remember that no modern state in Western christianity attained its
>>> present borders through conquest.
>>You forgot about the American Indians. Manifest Destiny my ass.
>>Also, the Confederate States of America no longer exist because Robert E.
Lee
>>was forced to surrender at Appomatox.
>>The United States was expanded through conquest, and held together through
>>conquest. Anyone who thinks the South wasn't conquered in the Civil War has
>>never heard of General Sherman.
>>Pat
And don't forget that the US took a huge chunk of Mexico, what nationality are
the Alsace-Lorrainians originally, Do you really think they all wanted to be
called
Germans before the (original) unification in the late 1800s.
Rodger