why have we not annexed mexico and canada?

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Because the republicans want to say, America is better than Mexico with our great capitalistic environment. And such. And the democrats need Canada to say. See look at the low crime and great universal healthcare.
 
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UTVOLKeith said:
Are we a superpower or not?
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While some might think you are crazy, I think this is a great question and one I have often asked. The US holds fast to the following notions: individuals need good government to prosper; representative government is the best form of government; and, the US model of representative government is the best model of representative government.

If one holds these as true, then why would one not be constantly attempting to annex (through persuasion, though, not necessarily through force) other peoples? Take the Iraq War and the stated goals to bring representative government to Iraq. At the point in which we had already toppled Saddam's regime by force and we were not working with the people to institute a new government, why did we not push for annexation?

We used to do so (Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.) The problems seemed to arise mostly not out of these territories wanting independence but out of these territories wanting statehood (they wanted to be "more American" than they were being treated).

Sure, with Iraq, the jury is out on whether or not the Iraqi people would have accepted being a territory and/or state. But, I think that they might have accepted being three territories and three states, thus the "who gets the oil revenue" would not have been, in my opinion, nearly as big of an issue.

Of course, for Americans back home, would we want six Senators and three or four Representatives from Iraq? I do not see where liberals would specifically object; and, while conservatives might object, I think that such a move would force the Federal Government to give up more control over legislation to the States.
 
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MG1968 said:
we're not doing anything with our own oil, what would we do with Canada's? turn it into a national park?
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We can do a lot more in US Territories than we can in US States, hence why there are so many pharma research facilities in Puerto Rico.
 
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therealUT said:
Of course, for Americans back home, would we want six Senators and three or four Representatives from Iraq? I do not see where liberals would specifically object; and, while conservatives might object, I think that such a move would force the Federal Government to give up more control over legislation to the States.
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you're a breath of fresh air

Iraq could be and should be a territory of the of the USA with simple annexation.

Annex mexico for the labor and canada for the natural resources...and grow this thing...
 
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We have a government that can barely run this country now, you trust them managing even more people, land, and resources?
 
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Gramps said:
Annex Mexico?

Look out your window. We have been in the process of being annexed by Mexico for several years.
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I didn't realize that annexed and infested are interchangeable terms, but in this case they are.....but I've never heard of a cockroach annexation
 
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