240 years of precedent down the tubes

[Rajvik]

Yes on the second part because we weren't a world power for almost another century. It wasn't until we semi-negotiated semi-fought the Spanish out of Cuba and the Philippines that we were considered a world power and then we were having to do the same with the banana republic wars as we did with the barbary pirates and the Moro tribes in the Philippines. Boot them don't piss on them, they'll remember both but be more contemptuous of the latter than the former.