Post #609 by sutton on the Macroeconomic Trends and Risks board

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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) https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-colin-powell-...
NB: later paraphrased and used by Colin Powell)

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