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To: LibWhacker

Make ‘em sign a treaty giving us the rights to the bases for 100 years.


Wouldn’t matter. The territory/property is theirs, so they can tear up the lease whenever they want.


82 posted on 06/09/2012 8:17:18 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer; LibWhacker
Wouldn’t matter. The territory/property is theirs, so they can tear up the lease whenever they want.

The only thing that might work would be to permanently sell the US an island, and irrevocably cede sovereignty over it to the US. Even then, there would eventually be pressure to give it back, like we did with the Panama Canal.

Another possibility would be to lease the area, and instead of us building upon the area, have their government pay for building the facilities, which we then lease back. Rig things so that they face unacceptably-high income losses if they ever kick us out.

88 posted on 06/09/2012 8:59:10 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: chessplayer
Make ‘em sign a treaty giving us the rights to the bases for 100 years..... Wouldn’t matter. The territory/property is theirs, so they can tear up the lease whenever they want.

Is that any different than Gitmo?

91 posted on 06/09/2012 11:05:46 AM PDT by QT3.14 (Never Argue With A LIBERAL...They Will Drag You Down To Their Level, Then Beat You With Experience!)
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To: chessplayer

The terms of the lease are everything. The Gitmo treaty is surprisingly short — it will fit on a single page, for instance, and allows us lease rights in perpetuity as long as we don’t violate the few terms on it and as long as *both sides* don’t mutually agree to end it.


127 posted on 06/10/2012 2:49:20 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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