[Dr. Sivana]

The Philippines really don’t fit the description.

Well, we didn't buy them. They didn't attack us until Spain tried ceding them to the U.S. in a war that really had nothing to do with them. They had nothing to do with the explosion on the Maine. The Filipinos by and large did not particularly want to be annexed by us. We killed a lot of folks there to get the place. Yeah, I'd call it plunder.

[sparklite2]

The distinction is that the Philippines are not a state.

[SoCal Pubbie]

When did we annex the Philippines? Last time I looked they were an independant country. It was a Spanish possession which we took control of after the Spanish-American war, but it wasn’t part of our territorial system for very long in historical terms.