[geeks] RE: Re: [rescue] God bless America

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 14:36, David Cantrell wrote:
> wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> > Sometimes we need to be watched.  Feedback is very important in any system.
> > In spite of mistakes, I think the US has done pretty good for a relatively young
> > country.  But now we have someone who has attacked us directly, first in history (Hawaii
> > was not part of the US at the time of Pearl Harbor).   
> 
> Your laws applied there; your currency was valid there ...
> 
> If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - it damned well is a duck.

I think the point was that Hawaii was a territory of the US, and not a
full-fledged state.  I don't make a distinction in terms of attacks on
the US, but I suppose one could.  Territories are territories for the
purpose of recieving aid, often in the form of military protection, from
the country that they're a territory of, aren't they?
	Greg