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Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?
Pedantically? If we take your new definition, how many countries is the US currently invading with its airforce (particularly drones)? It isn't invading them because it's armies aren't in them and that's what the term "on its soil" means.
paulddraper
on April 11, 2017
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Well, the parent was talking about _bombing_, so Pearl Harbor is a reasonable point.
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