Independence Day | Northampton
Independence Day – July 4th 1999
Today we celebrate United States independence. I want to challenge the concept of independence in a country that has interfered numerous times in other countries affairs.
Instances of the Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad 1798-2002: Afganistan-2002 | Algiers-1815 | Angola-1869 | Argentina-1833-1852-53 | Brazil-1894 | Bosnia-1993 | Cambodia-1970 | Colombia-1860-1868-1873-1895-1901-02-1928 | Costa Rica-1921 | Cuba-1822-1823-1824-1825-1906-09-1912-1917-22-1933-1961-1962-1969 | Chile-1891-1973 | China-1854-1856-1859-1866-1894-95-1898-99-1900-1911-1912-41-1920-1924-1925-1926-1927 | Dominican Republic-1903-1904-1914-1916-24-1965 | Egypt-1882 | El Salvador-1932-1975-1979 | Fiji Islands-1840-1855-1858 | Formosa-1867 | Germany-1941-45-1947-89 (Berlin) | Greece-1827 | Greenland-1941 | Grenada-1983 | Guatemala-1920-1954-1994 | Haiti-1888-1890-1914-1915-34-1994 | Honduras-1896-1903-1907-1911-1912-1919-1924-1925 | Iceland-1941 | Irak-1990-2003 | Italy-1941-45 | Ivory coast-1843 | Japan-1863-1864-1868-1941-45 | Yugoslavia-1992-94 | Korea-1871-1888-1894-96-1904-05-1950 | Laos-1970 | Lebanon-1957 | Mexico-1836-1842-1844-1846-48 (Mexican War)-1859-1866-1870-1873-1876-1913-1914-17-1918-19 | Morocco-1904 | Nicaragua-1833-1853-1854-1857-1894-1896-1898-1899-1910-1912-25-1926-33-1981 | Panama-1856-1865-1885-1903-14-1918-20-1921-1925-1958-1964-1989 | Paraguay-1859 | Philippines-1899-1901 | Peru-1835-36 | Puerto Rico-1898 | Samoa-1888-89-1899 | Somalia-1992-94 | Soviet Russia-1918-20, 1920-22 | Spain-1806 (Mexico)-1810-13 (Florida)-1814-1816 (Florida)-1817 (Amelia Island)-1824 (Puerto Rico)-1898 (Spanish War) | Sumatra-1832-1838-39 | Syria-1903 | Tripoli-1801-05-1815 | Turkey-1851-1859-1912-1922 | Uruguay-1855-1858-1868 | Vietnam-1964.
