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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sutton ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Have we become Monaco?
Date: 04/08/25 9:51 AM
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For example, there was a time that it was considered impolite to annex other countries' territory, but that seems well within the Overton window now. I don't think I would ever call that normal

"...remarks by General Mark W. Clark in his 1950 memoir Calculated Risk. Clark wrote about American war cemeteries in Italy: "Here was our only conquest: all we asked of Italy was enough of her soil to bury our gallant dead" (1)

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(1) boards.straightdope.com - Is colin powell borrowing what is probably his most famous quote
NB: later paraphrased and used by Colin Powell)
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