Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
> Bob writes:
>
> > But!! What does it matter The true Country is the British Republic,
> >  susposedly "The sun nevers sets on the British Republic." let us see if
> >  America can brag about something as big as that!!!
>
> Harummph! Revisionist history poppycock, I say old chap!
>
> When that saying was popular, the phrase that was used was the "The sun never
> sets on the British Empire." Other than a few misadventures in China and to
> some degree in the Phillipines, the United States has never tried very hard
> to become an empire and certainly isn't one now. What few territories the US
> now possesses were mostly given to the US in trust after World War I, with
> Guam, Samoa, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico slight exceptions to that
> comment.
>
Tell THAT to the Mexicans.

Nick D.