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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
Yeah, true.
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True enough but there are plenty of things that they share, including a healthy sense of American Nationalism. (I add the American prefix for our European friends whose own definition of nationalism seems to be somewhat different and far more dark than our own).
Speaking of Europeans, TR was quite bellicose when it came to European interference on our side of the pond, he did as much as anyone to start war with Spain and he exceeded his authority as assistant SecNav to give marching orders to Admiral Dewey vastly expanding the war from just Cuba to the Philippines as well. He also ran roughshod over the sovereignty of another nation in order to get the Panama Canal built.