[gottasayit]

Please. Look at what's happening in the Ukraine. Can you see the US invading Mexico or Canada and keeping the territory because our President was a megalomaniac?

Even when we do invade somewhere to take out someone like UBL, Saddam Hussein, or Noriega; when we're done we clean up, rebuild some infrastructure, and leave.

No other nation on earth in history has restricted the wars it fights in such a principled way, rather than using them as excuses to just take more territory.

[mahouse]

The US never leave, they leave a puppet leader and ensure the new regime that is set in that country will always obey the "US standards of quality".

[lmm]

You should check your history. The US kept the Philippines until they revolted hard enough to stick. It keeps Puerto Rico to this day.