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Old 05-24-2010, 11:21 AM   #11
Dutch
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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he questions the imperial mission of the US in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. He's also critical of [Theodore] Roosevelt, and takes the view that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I'm about to finish up one of Teddy's biographies "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt". I will be very interested to read Twain's comments/criticisms on the subject of Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War.
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