05-06-2015, 06:45 AM
Dakine,
The major part of your dilemma here is that Nations on the whole do not go around giving themselves freely to other nations and there is no precedence for that in the world courts eyes or in the case of the USA. It's a bizarre situation and therefore reflected what was seemingly a strange method of decided adoption. One cannot 120 years later run out and shake an illegitimacy stick at it because it wasn't normal... damn right it wasn't normal. The whole thing was unique and not at all typical. Attempting to box it with other annexations is an exercise in futility. There are no parallels and expecting them is crazy.
The major part of your dilemma here is that Nations on the whole do not go around giving themselves freely to other nations and there is no precedence for that in the world courts eyes or in the case of the USA. It's a bizarre situation and therefore reflected what was seemingly a strange method of decided adoption. One cannot 120 years later run out and shake an illegitimacy stick at it because it wasn't normal... damn right it wasn't normal. The whole thing was unique and not at all typical. Attempting to box it with other annexations is an exercise in futility. There are no parallels and expecting them is crazy.