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In article <1992Apr16.173046.7638@techbook.com> gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) writes:
>makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:
>>	Just out of curiousity, what are the real borders of Greater
>>United States?  Or if you wish, what are the borders of the United
>>States?
>
>Please don't try to sidetrack the issue; we are not speaking of past
>expansionist behavior of the US -- which definitely existed and which I
>have no sympathy for.  We are talking about the borders of Israel and
>whether people like you ever had any intention of accepting the original
>partition of Palestine or even the current borders.  The issue of the
>occupied territories is very much a question of expansionism.
>
>The borders of the US have been pretty clearly defined for a  while: try
>looking at a map.
   
   Except, of course, when the US Coast Guard decides to collar Canadian
   fishing boats along the Alaska/B.C. border. Not because they've
   strayed over the line, not because they dispute the geographic marks
   defining the border, but because they say that the treaty (~1905)
   is "wrong" and the border "should" be farther south.