The title has been a fact of war and life since time immemorial. However, times are apparently changing.
President Obama has "asked" Israel to return the West Bank to the Palestinians. Why? I'm not even going to go there. However, I doubt seriously if the Israelis will comply. If they do, they are signing there own death warrant. The 1967 line cannot be successfully defended. At one point Israel will be a whopping 8 miles wide, from the West Bank to the Mediterranean. Jerusalem will be all but surrounded.
If Mr. Obama is successful in his quest for the West Bank to be returned, he will have set an historical precedent. Land taken by force of arms must be returned to the original owners. How could that effect other nations? It would probably only effect four additional countries.
In reverse order:
1. The United States would have to return Puerto Rico and Guam to Spain. We took them, along with the Philippines, during the Spanish American War.
2. The United States would have to return Arizona, California, Colorado, southern Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, southern Oregon and Utah to Mexico. We took them during the Mexican War.
3. The United States would have to return the 13 original states to Great Britain. Those states are Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia (including parts of Alabama. Louisiana east of the Mississippi River and Mississippi), Massachusetts (including Maine), Maryland (including the District of Columbia), North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia (including Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia). We would also have to return the Northwest Territory to Great Britain. The Northwest Territory includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, northeastern Minnesota, and Ohio. All of those 18 states became ours due to force of arms in the American Revolution.
What would that leave us? The Louisiana Purchase was made from the French in 1804 and includes what is now Arkansas, Colorado east of the Rockies, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, Montana east of the Rockies, Nebraska, northeastern New Mexico, most of North Dakota, Oklahoma, northern Texas, and Wyoming east of the Rockies. The Adams-Odonis Treaty of 1819 resulted in Spain turning over Florida and Southern Alabama to the United States. Seward's Folly was the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. In 1898 the United States annexed the Republic of Hawaii. The Republic of Texas requested annexation by the United States. Oh and we bought the Dutch West Indies and renamed them the US Virgin Islands.
Assuming, if you aren't laughing hysterically, that Obama returns the states we took by force of arms to England, Mexico, and Spain, than we can look at the legal issues. If the original 13 colonies are returned to England, than there was no United States. If there was no United States, the lands we putchased and annexed would have to go back to Holland,Spain, France, the Republic of Hawaii, the Republic of Texas, and Russia. Why? Simple those nations made a reaty with the United States of America to surrender the lands in return for cash or something equally valuable. But if the United States wasn't legally a sovereign nation at the time the treaties were signed wouldn't they be void?
Now what about President Obama? Well, he could just whip out his Kenyan passport, issued when Kenya was a British Crown Colony, claim British citizenship and hope to be named governor of Britains American Colonies.
As for rest of us, well I'm afraid the Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate War Veterans, and Sons of the Grand Army of the Republic would have to haul down Grandpappies long gun and start over.
Which leads me to the thought, if I qualify for the SAR and the S-GAP would I have to go twice?
May God protect Barrack Hussein Obama from his big mouth and Chicago politicogangsta mind, because apparently Richard Daley can't do it!
Gunner sends.
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