I was wrong (it's worse than I thought)

By Ian Darwin on 2007-01-26 00:00 in Category: politics

I used to think, and tell people, that the United States' preoccupation with international meddling began in 1898, with the sinking of the Maine and the resulting Spanish-American war. But I was wrong. It started earlier. Five years earlier, with the illegal annexation by force of a small, peaceful and independent nation known as Hawaii...