Subject: Re: Have we become Monaco?
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)

-- sutton

(1) https://boards.straightdope.co...
NB: later paraphrased and used by Colin Powell)