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How well have the Republicans faired since the Spanish American War?

‘Bomb ‘em back to the Stone Age’ was the policy back then. It didn’t work. And the proud tradition of Republican weakness at diplomacy is showing quite clearly again. They don’t know how to wage a war or how to end one, having failed at both in every hot war since the Spanish American War of 1898.

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Did the Spanish American War mark the beginning of the end for the United States?

Yet, we're not a nation bent on military conquest. The last territorial expansion we had as a country that came from a military conflict was the Spanish American War in 1900. However, if look back at countries in the past who were the undisputed military superpower of their day (the Roman Empire, 1600s Spain, Victorian England, etc.), they started to decline when they stopped expanding. If it weren't for World War II and the Cold War, we would have declined as a nation a long time ago with our current geopolitical thinking.

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